Paul Hodgson
Paul Hodgson is widely considered one of the foremost authorities in the fields of ESG and executive compensation, having researched and written about the subjects for more than 35 years. Mr. Hodgson currently works as a freelance writer and researcher for The Conference Board and Ceres, and as Senior Advisor to ESGAUGE. Mr. Hodgson has worked as a partner in governance research firm BHJ Partners, as well as US Governance Columnist for ‘Responsible Investor’, Columnist at ‘Fortune’, European Correspondent for ‘Compliance Week’ and columnist at IR Magazine, as well as lead author on many of The Conference Board’s publications on executive and director pay and governance practices. Until 2012, he was GMI Ratings/The Corporate Library’s Chief Research Analyst. He joined The Corporate Library in 2001 and was the chief architect of the executive and director compensation databases there, and the author of most of the company’s published research on compensation as well as other areas of governance. He was also the chief author on GMI’s award winning blog and was a regular contributor to Forbes.com. Most recently he was the author of Oregon State Treasury’s Net Zero Report.
Prior to joining The Corporate Library in 2001, he worked for The Executive Compensation Review (ECR), published by Incomes Data Services (IDS) in London. Joining as a researcher on IDS’s Management Pay Review, he became the Assistant Editor of the Executive Compensation Review in 1995. He is the author of numerous books and research reports on executive pay and has had articles published in many journals, including ‘Financial Times’, ‘Business Week’, ‘The Guardian’, ‘Reuters’, ‘Bloomberg’, ‘Forbes’, ‘Directorship’, ‘Ivey Business Journal’, ‘Corporate Secretary Magazine’ and ‘Directors and Boards’. His most recent book was Building Value Through Compensation, a title in the CCH Board Perspectives series. Mr. Hodgson is a graduate of Durham University (U.K.) and University College, Cardiff, Wales.