1、GLOBAL FINEXGlobal Directors and Officers Survey Report20242IntroductionWelcome to the 2024 Global Directors and Officers(D&O)Survey Report.We are thrilled to have received responses from more than 50 countries around the world to our latest survey enabling us to provide analyses for more regions an

2、d more countries than ever before.Top risksThe results this year are pretty surprising!As you will see on page 6,we have a new number one risk for directors and officers:health and safety risks.We found this to be a genuinely surprising change.It isnt a surprise that so many people rank this risk so

3、 highly it has been in the top seven risks for many years.What is surprising is that it has moved from being the fourth or fifth ranked risk for the last few years to being the number one risk this year.We have spoken to a number of people who completed the survey and there was no particular consens

4、us as to the reasons behind the change.There seems to be general agreement that health and safety is a key risk which boards must consider and the most consistent point raised was that the change may be more reflective of people becoming more comfortable with managing cyber and data loss risks,rathe

5、r than that health and safety has been re-prioritised.We also have two other new entrants into the top seven risks this year:systems and controls,as well as breach of sanctions.More discussion about the top seven risks can be found in this article.International scopeThe additional international reac

6、h of our survey has allowed us to add two new regions to our regional comparisons:Africa and the Middle-East are included for the first time.See pages 7 and 13 for some of our regional data.In addition,more detailed analyses on the results for Africa can be found here and on the Middle-East here.We