Canada’s BCI targets Asia for gender-diverse boards; makes Mumbai hire

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), the investment manager for the public sector of the province of British Columbia, is raising its expectations for the inclusion of female directors on company boards in Japan. That's according to its updated proxy voting guidelines for 2023. The institutional investor will now advocate Japanese companies to have at least one female director on their boards. “Japan is the first market in Asia we are targeting on gender d…