Global Capital Markets Center: George S. Dallas
George S. Dallas is Managing Director and Global Practice Leader in
Standard & Poor’s Governance Services unit, based in London. This unit has been active since 2000 in providing individual company corporate governance evaluations in both emerging and
developed markets. Mr. Dallas has been involved actively with the development of Standard & Poor’s corporate governance analytical criteria and with the application of its governance
evaluation and scoring service in markets around the world. He is also actively engaged with the management and governance assessment initiative that is part of Standard & Poor’s wider
enhanced analytics programme–linking corporate governance evaluations more formally to the credit rating process.
Prior to this assignment Mr. Dallas was head of Global Emerging Markets for Standard & Poor’s. He also has served as regional head for Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services in Europe and has been head of Standard & Poor’s London office and practice leader of the company’s international corporate ratings group. He joined Standard & Poor’s as an analyst in 1983, prior to which he was a corporate lending officer at Wells Fargo Bank.
Mr. Dallas is editor of the book Governance and Risk (McGraw Hill, 2004), and has written numerous articles and several book chapters on themes relating to corporate governance and international finance. He has served on the boards of several Standard & Poor’s affiliates in Europe. In 2003, Mr. Dallas won the McGraw-Hill award for Excellence in Leadership.
Mr. Dallas holds a B.A., With Distinction, from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley.