Search Sustopedia

MetricGovernance body composition and oversight

Governance-body membership by executive status

Measurement answer

What this metric measures

Count of members of a specified governance body by executive, non-executive or unclassified status at a declared reference date, preserving person-versus-membership basis, board system, vacancies and overlapping service across bodies.

Specification

Metric specification

Result format
Structured table
Unit
Governance-body memberships (occupied seats)
Reporting basis
Reference-date snapshot or explicitly reported period-average basis
Aggregation
Combine executive and non-executive counts only when categories are disjoint and exhaustive for the same body, unit and date; snapshots are non-additive over time.
Pillar
Governance
Topic
Governance body composition and oversight
Controlled domain
Governance and business conduct
Entity type
Metric

Reporting boundary

Authorized seats, occupied memberships and individual people are separate quantities. A person on multiple bodies can be counted once per membership but requires deduplication for a person-level view.

Verified source occurrences

Framework coverage

This is one canonical metric. The bindings below show every verified framework occurrence without creating duplicate metric pages. Edition, disclosure, role, and relationship remain source-specific.

  • Adopting Disclosure

    European Sustainability Reporting Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    European Commission
    Edition
    Consolidated 1 January 2025 edition
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    ESRS 2 GOV-1 PDF pp52-53; GOV-2 and GOV-3 pp54-55
    Open official framework source
  • Adopting Disclosure

    GRI Standards

    Source evidence
    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2021 edition, effective for reports published from 1 January 2023
    Requirement
    Not Specified
    Relationship
    Defines Disclosure
    Mapping outcome
    Direct Evidence
    Source locator
    Disclosure 2-9 PDF p20; Disclosure 2-16 p27; Disclosure 2-19 p30
    Open official framework source

Value structure

Dimensions and units

Unit
Governance-body memberships (occupied seats)
Reporting basis
Reference-date snapshot or explicitly reported period-average basis

Unit meaning: One unit is one occupied membership in the named governance body and executive-status category; an individual serving on multiple bodies can have multiple memberships.

Table fields and units

  • reporting entity
  • named body and body type
  • unitary or dual system
  • person, membership or seat basis
  • reference date or period-average basis
  • Reported value
  • Governance-body memberships (occupied seats)
  • Measurement-source edition
  • Assurance status

Published dimensions

  • Reporting entity.
  • Named body and body type.
  • Unitary or dual system.
  • Person, membership or seat basis.
  • Reference date or period-average basis.
  • Executive, non-executive or unclassified status.
  • Occupied or vacant state.
  • Authorized-seat count if reported.
  • Member count and source-reported total.
  • Person overlap across bodies.
  • Classification authority and edition.
  • Assurance state.

Disclosure method

Formula information

Status
Not applicable
Formula type
Structured Disclosure

Disclosure form

No single formula

Populate the structured fields from qualifying source observations and retain each field-level unit, boundary, status, and method; do not collapse the disclosure into one calculated value.

Verified sources

Evidence and status sources

Sustopedia checked each record-specific claim directly against primary publisher material. Labels distinguish current measurement authority from future compatibility and corroborative, legal, edition, or method status context. Corroborative evidence can support a stated limitation but cannot establish the core measurement by itself.

Measurement evidence

  • Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026

    Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772, consolidated 1 January 2025

    Publisher
    European Commission
    Edition
    Consolidated 1 January 2025 edition
    Locator
    ESRS 2 GOV-1 PDF pp52-53; GOV-2 and GOV-3 pp54-55

    Supports: Supports the measurement definition, boundary, and source-reported fields for Governance-body membership by executive status.

    Open official source
  • Measurement evidenceChecked 15 August 2026

    GRI 2: General Disclosures 2021

    Publisher
    Global Reporting Initiative
    Edition
    2021 edition, effective for reports published from 1 January 2023
    Locator
    Disclosure 2-9 PDF p20; Disclosure 2-16 p27; Disclosure 2-19 p30

    Supports: Supports the measurement definition, boundary, and source-reported fields for Governance-body membership by executive status.

    Open official source

Use with context

Interpretation boundaries

Method disclosures required

Source-edition basis: Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772, consolidated 1 January 2025 — Consolidated 1 January 2025 edition; GRI 2: General Disclosures 2021 — 2021 edition, effective for reports published from 1 January 2023. Retain the exact source edition on every observation; later editions require a separate method profile.

  • Reporting entity.
  • Named body and body type.
  • Unitary or dual system.
  • Person, membership or seat basis.
  • Reference date or period-average basis.
  • Executive, non-executive or unclassified status.
  • Occupied or vacant state.
  • Authorized-seat count if reported.
  • Retain the exact measurement-source edition with every observation.
  • One unit is one occupied membership in the named governance body and executive-status category; an individual serving on multiple bodies can have multiple memberships.

Record-specific limitations

  • Membership count does not measure independence, competence, diversity, workload, participation, effectiveness or authorized capacity.
  • Vacancies and co-opted or alternate roles affect comparability.

Interpret this metric with the stated reporting boundary, period convention, value shape, and unit. Results prepared with different boundaries or conventions may not be directly comparable.

Measurement evidence supports the core record-specific claims described above. Corroborative evidence can support limitations, while compatibility and status sources provide their separately labelled context. None of these cards by itself determines an organisation's legal applicability, filing readiness, assurance status, or compliance conclusion.