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Pru BennettDirector
Investment Stewardship
BlackRock

Pru Bennett

Pru Bennett, Director, is Head of BlackRock's Investment Stewardship team, for the Asia Pacific Region based in Hong Kong. In this role, Pru is responsible for leading BlackRock's stewardship efforts covering engagement and voting in Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand on behalf of BlackRock's clients globally and integration of extra financial issues in the investment process.

Pru is an active participant in the public corporate governance, stewardship and responsible investment debate and as such regularly speaks on the importance of these issues for company performance and investment decisions. Pru represents BlackRock on a number of industry and regulatory bodies including the Australian Financial Services Council's ESG Working Group and Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission's Public Shareholder Group. In 2013 Pru was named as one of Australia's top 10 Women of Influence in Corporate Governance.

Pru joined BlackRock in August 2010. Prior to joining BlackRock Pru was head of Corporate Governance at institutional advisor Regnan Governance and Research. From 1998, Pru was a director of Australian proxy advisor Corporate Governance International, which was acquired by Glass Lewis & Co in 2006 and is now known as CGI Glass Lewis. Prior to working in the area of corporate governance Pru was Investor Relations Manager for Qantas Airways Limited. Pru has a BCom from the University of New South Wales and is a member of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants