If you would like to be a non-executive director on a company board, register now on the Business/Higher Education Round Table’s new Directors' Register.

Visit www.bhert.com for a full explanation and how to register.

Companies are being encouraged to widen their pool of non-executive directors, to diversify the collective talent around the board table, and to go outside the normal pool of likely candidates.

In the January 2005 issue of Company Director, the official journal of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, in an article on Corporate Governance, the comment was made, ‘We need to widen the pool of directors ... to include women, government, academics, HR people, industrial relations, communications and IT.’.

There is probably not a single university governing body in Australia which does not include at least one business person. Generally there will be several. Conversely, there are very few corporate boards which include academics, scientists, or researchers.

This is your opportunity.