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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000064040-25-000179"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SPGI"
cik: "0000064040"
company_name: "S&P Global Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:07:13.084616+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# S&P Global appoints Hubert Joly to board, effective Jan 2, 2026

## Summary
- Hubert Joly appointed to S&P Global board, effective January 2, 2026.
- Board expanded from 10 to 11 directors; Joly to serve on Audit and Compensation & Leadership Development committees.
- Joly is former Chairman & CEO of Best Buy, now senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
- Joly also serves on board of Johnson & Johnson and is trustee of New York Public Library.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000064040-25-000179
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SPGI
- cik: 0000064040
- company_name: S&P Global Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64040/000006404025000179/0000064040-25-000179-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64040/000006404025000179/spgi-20251210.htm

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