International Women’s Day: Hong Kong firms must do more on recruitment, training and mentoring to achieve board diversity, panel hears

• Policies requiring head-hunters to come up with a minimum female representation on a board’s nomination committee can help, says Andrew Weir of KPMG
• Women occupy only 16 per cent of board seats in Hong Kong, well below the 25 to 46 per cent seen in western countries, and Singapore’s 21.6 per cent