2021 Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Report

Corporate Governance (102-18)

Our Board of Directors is comprised of 10 Directors, eight of whom are independent. Our Board of Directors has three committees: the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee. All Board committees share responsibility for ESG decision-making and the oversight of management’s implementation of ESG initiatives. As a part of their general responsibility for overseeing Cushman & Wakefield’s corporate strategy and approach to enterprise risk management, the Board and its committees regularly engage with, and hear from, senior management on various ESG-related issues and consider the potential impact of such issues on the long-term sustainability strategy of the company. Recent discussions have focused on topics such as emissions targets, sustainability services, ethics and compliance, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), supplier diversity, talent recruitment and retention, health and wellbeing of company employees, and workplace intelligence and experience. Our governance bodies are held to the following policies which can be found under Governance Documents on our Investor Relations Page:

> Corporate Governance Guidelines

> Global Code of Business Conduct

> Code of Business Conduct for Members of the Board of Directors

> Audit Committee Charter

> Compensation Committee Charter

> Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter

Across our firm, we seek to integrate ESG factors into our operations, business practices and service offerings. Each area is overseen by subject matter experts. Our Corporate ESG program provides enterprise-level coordination of ESG efforts through data collection, reporting, communications, strategic initiatives and more, and is overseen by an executive management team including Brad Kreiger, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer; Nathaniel Robinson, Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning; and Brett Soloway, Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Members of each executive sponsor’s teams lead the Corporate ESG program and manage the Corporate ESG Reporting Committee, a cross-functional group of experts across the firm’s regions, service lines and business units who represent all material* ESG areas.

*“Materiality” as used throughout this Report refers to the way “materiality” is used and described in the GRI standards. In this Report, we are not using the terms "material" or "materiality" as they are used under the securities or other laws of the United States or any other jurisdiction, or as they are used in the context of financial statements and financial reporting. “Materiality,” for the purposes of this document should not, therefore, be read as equating to any use of the word in other Cushman & Wakefield reporting or filings.

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