Dr. Kaum is an expert on corporate governance matters and has been very active in the promotion of shareholders rights and delivering better governance based on mutual knowledge of issuers and investors. He is a leading European expert in these areas and represents issuers on several national and European groups and bodies, among those as chairman of the General Meeting Joint Working Group, as member of the Policy Committee of European Issuers and the European Post Trade Group.Markus studied at Regensburg, Munich and Cambridge.