Robert A. G. Monks

Robert A. G. Monks is a shareholder activist and one of the founders of the field of corporate governance. He is the author of "Corpocracy" and "The New Global Investors", and with Nell Minow, "Watching the Watchers", "Corporate Governance" and "Power & Accountability".

He was the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Financial Executive from the Financial Management Association in 2007.

Monks has written widely about corporate governance and has published more than a hundred papers in publications around the world.

Monks is the subject of a biography chronicling the corporate governance movement, "A Traitor to His Class" by Hilary Rosenberg.

:"The corporation is an externalizing machine, in the same way that a shark is a killing machine." - Robert Monks (2003) Republican candidate for Senate from Maine and corporate governance adviser in the film "The Corporation".

Bibliography

*"Power & Accountability." HarperCollins, 1991. (with Nell Minow)
*"Watching the Watchers." Capstone, 1996. (with Nell Minow)
*"The Emperor’s Nightingale." Saint Simons Island, Georgia: Brook Street, 1999.
*"The New Global Investors." Capstone, 2001.
*"Capitalism Without Owners Will Fail: A Policymaker’s Guide to Reform." London: CSFI, 2002. (with Allen Sykes)
*"Reel and Rout." Saint Simons Island, Georgia: Brook Street, 2004.
*"Corpocracy." New York; Wiley, 2007.
*"Corporate Governance (4th Revised Edition)." London: Blackwell, 2007. (with Nell Minow)

References

*Hart, Joanne. "Bob Monks: Ungoverned companies are like doped horses." ("Reach" April 2005)
*Geraciot, David A. "Bob Monks' Thirty-year Crusade." ("Registered Rep." February 2003)

External links

* [http://www.ragm.com Robert Monks' blog]