AccountAbility sets up advisory council

Standards consultancy AccountAbility has appointed an advisory council to provide strategic guidance to its operations. Its members include John Fraser, chief executive of UBS Global Asset Management, former head of the US Financial Accounting Standards Board Robert Herz, and Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of Hermes Equity. The board, which AccountAbility is heralding as a who’s who of global CSR, will aim to increase the impact of the consultancy’s standards and shape its research agenda in the future.