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J L Thornton
(Age 50). Professor of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University of Beijing since 2003.
President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 1999 until 2003.
Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs Group, Inc and Director of The Goldman Sachs Foundation.
Director of the Ford Motor Company since 1996, Intel Corporation since 2003 and the DIRECTV Group since December 2003.
Non-Executive Director of The News Corporation Limited since June 2004 and member of the Compensation Committee.
Directors’ Meetings
The following Directors were in office during the financial year, and attended the following number of Board meetings:
Meetings of Committees
Directors’ Audit Nominating Compensation
Meetings and Corporate
Governance
Number of meetings held: 7524
Number of meetings attended:
K R Murdoch AC 7
P Barnes (a) 1
G C Bible 7 2
C Carey 7
P Chernin 6
K E Cowley AO 7 2
D F DeVoe 7
V Dinh (b) 1
R I Eddington (c) 7 1 2 3
J A M Erkko KBE (d) 0 1 0
A S B Knight 5 5 4
G J Kraehe (e) 4 4
J R Murdoch (f) 1
L K Murdoch 7
T J Perkins 7 5 4
S S Shuman 7
A M Siskind 7
J. L Thornton (g) 1
(a) Represents attendance at all meetings subsequent to (i) appointment to the Board in April 2004 and (ii) appointment to
the Audit Committee upon reconstitution of board committees in June 2004
(b) Represents attendance at all meetings subsequent to (i) appointment to Board in April 2004 and (ii) appointment to
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee upon reconstitution of Board Committees in June 2004
(c) Represents attendance at all meetings upon (i) appointment to the Compensation Committee in October 2003, (ii)
appointment to the Audit Committee in June 2004 and (iii) retirement from the Nominating and Corporate Governance
Committee in June 2004
(d) Represents attendance at all meetings prior to resignation from the Board in October 2003
(e) Represents attendance at all meetings prior to resignation from the Board in April 2004
(f) Represents attendance at all meetings prior to resignation from the Board in November 2003
(g) Represents attendance at all meetings upon appointment to the Board in June 2004
Numerous other meetings of the Board attended by a quorum of two or more Directors were held to deal with the day to day
business of the Group.
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NEWS CORPORATION CONCISE REPORT 2004
Directors’ Report
(continued)
for the year ended 30 June, 2004