The Cambridge Handbook of Shareholder Engagement and Voting

Harpreet Kaur is Professor of Law and Director, Centre for Corporate Law and Governance at National Law University, Delhi. She teaches corporate law, securities and antitrust laws. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in Residence at MDC, Miami, and Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Scholar at Emory Law School. She has co-authored and edited many law books as well as conducted research in her areas of expertise. Chao Xi is Professor of Law and chairs the CCTL Corporate Law and Governance Cluster at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He is co-author of Corporate Governance and Legal Reform in China (2009) and Doing Business in China (3rd ed. 2009; 4th ed. 2016). His empirical research on shareholder voting and engagement has attracted significant funding support from funding agencies and regulatory bodies. Christoph Van der Elst was among the first scholars studying shareholder voting and engagement (see Attendance of Shareholders in European Business Organization Law Review, 2004) and has built a long track record in this research field. He is Professor of Business Law and Economics at Tilburg University and Ghent University, and as an independent director and member of an audit committee he is also familiar with how corporate voting and governance work in action. Anne Lafarre is Associate Professor at the Business Law Department at Tilburg University. She also teaches at the Jheronimus Academy of Data Science in 's-Hertogenbosch. Her recent research focuses on the use of modern technologies in corporate law, including the modernization of the AGM and shareholder engagement, shareholder sustainability activism and shareholder voting from a comparative perspective.