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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-138544"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DUK"
cik: "0001326160"
company_name: "Duke Energy CORP"
filed_at: "2021-11-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T08:12:19.264479+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Duke Energy enters cooperation with Elliott; new director, lead director change

## Summary
- Idalene Kesner appointed to Duke Energy board as independent director, effective Nov 15, 2021; also serves on Corporate Governance and Operations & Nuclear Oversight committees.
- Michael Browning, independent lead director, will retire at 2022 annual meeting; Ted Craver elected to succeed as lead director.
- Elliott agrees to standstill, voting support, and ownership limits (≤4.9% common stock, ≤7.5% economic exposure) for one year.
- Duke and Elliott will seek an additional independent director mutually agreeable, to be appointed by March 31, 2022.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-138544
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DUK
- cik: 0001326160
- company_name: Duke Energy CORP
- filed_at: 2021-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465921138544/0001104659-21-138544-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465921138544/tm2132901d1_8k.htm

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- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-138544.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-138544.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Idalene Kesner was appointed as Director at Duke Energy CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On November 13, 2021 the Board appointed Dr. Kesner to the Board, effective November 15, 2021, with an initial term expiring at the 2022 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326160/000110465921138544/0001104659-21-138544-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.