What are regulators and market participants doing to encourage or require higher levels of board renewal around the region? Recent efforts include: limits on INED tenure; renewed focus on nomination committees; promotion of substantive policies, targets and plans for director and management diversity; director training institutes to raise knowledge levels and create pools of directors; and the arrival of the much-misunderstood “skills matrix”. The discussion will also examine why board renewal is necessary to address climate and environmental strategy, cybersecurity, human capital management, human rights and longstanding governance issues such as board effectiveness and independence, generating value for shareholders and ensuring sound systems of internal control.