Daniel Blume

Daniel Blume heads the OECD Secretariat’s Corporate Governance Unit, responsible for supporting the OECD Corporate Governance Committee’s work to review, monitor, assess and promote implementation of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. He also leads preparation of the OECD Corporate Governance Factbook, comparing corporate governance policies and frameworks across all OECD and G20 member countries; and a range of thematic work, e.g. on issues related to the impacts of digitalization on corporate governance; enforcement of shareholder rights; corporate governance of company groups; and risk management.

He has conducted corporate governance policy reviews of numerous countries, including as manager of corporate governance reviews for candidate countries for OECD membership. His unit also organizes the OECD’s Regional Roundtables on Corporate Governance, including in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa. He has worked at the OECD since 1994, and previously worked at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (1991-1994) and as a newspaper reporter (1984-89) in California. He received his master’s degree in public policy from Duke University (1991).