Research & Insights
Data is the starting point. ALBEI researches board diversity in Australia's listed companies, makes formal submissions and shares what we learn.
Featured · 15 October 2026 · Board diversity advice
New legal advice to ALBEI from leading barristers Noel Hutley SC, Jesse Kennedy and Karen Petch finds that listed company boards that fail even to consider improving diversity beyond gender are likely to be out of step with the ASX Corporate Governance Principles. Our media release sets out the findings, and our note to investors explains what they mean for stewardship.
Research & submissions
Research · 2024
62 of 129 ASX200 companies with inclusive diversity policies didn't apply them to their own boards.
As at January 2024, only two ASX200 companies reported on under-represented groups on their boards, and only one of them is Australian. Sponsored by Deloitte and Canva.
Submission · 2024
ALBEI stood alongside other under-represented groups so the case for diversity beyond gender was made with one voice.
Research · 2023
16 of the ASX50 had diversity and inclusion policies that applied to their boards and directors.
What we understand to be the first research into the diversity arrangements of ASX boards by Australians.
Read the researchALBEI also contributes LGBTQ+ director data to the Watermark Board Diversity Index.
ASX200 Board Diversity Governance · 2024
Only 129 ASX200 companies have a broadly inclusive definition of diversity, and 23 exclude sexual orientation altogether. Just 67 of the 129 apply their policy to the board itself, and almost none report on diversity beyond gender.
Source: ALBEI, ASX200 Board Diversity Governance, as at January 2024. For the ASX300 board numbers behind this research, read the March 2024 slides.
Newsletters & papers
Insights & news
Two board opportunities shared with the ALBEI network: Tennis Australia's call for nominations, and Chair of the Audit Committee for the Australian subsidiary of a global payments company.
Advocacy16 June 2026The new ASX Corporate Governance Principles Advisory Committee has ruled out any consideration of diversity beyond gender on listed boards. ALBEI will keep advocating.
Insight · Lesley Traverso25 January 2025Lesley Traverso reflects on the ABS's first estimates of Australia's LGBTQ+ population, and what the age breakdown means for boards.
Submission1 May 2024Our submission to the ASX Corporate Governance Council on its proposed principles, with a summary and the full submission.
Research1 March 2024Our review of the diversity policies, board governance documents and Corporate Governance Statements of the ASX200.
Insight · Lesley Traverso14 February 2024Lesley Traverso explores whether there is evidence of a pay gap influenced by sexual orientation as well as gender.
Update15 November 2023ALBEI becomes a not-for-profit, our inaugural board, spreading the word, a global conversation in New York, and the date for our launch.
Global8 October 2023What Nasdaq-listed companies' board diversity disclosures show about representation in the United States.
Update15 August 2023Lunch with Dame Inga Beale, what we've been working on, and what we're hearing about the networks boards recruit from.
Research · Mark Baxter29 April 2023Our first research: 16 of the ASX50 have diversity and inclusion policies that apply to their boards. Is this moving the dial on true diversity?
News27 April 2023The 2023 Board Diversity Index from Watermark Search International and the Governance Institute of Australia, with ALBEI's contribution on LGBTQ+ directors.
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