Governance Overview

Corporate governance 

At PPG, we hold ourselves to high standards of integrity and professional conduct. This means going beyond ensuring compliance with laws, rules and regulations, and centering our approach on upholding PPG's values, code of ethics and voluntary commitments. We review and update our policies regularly to ensure they continue to support us in meeting our high standards of integrity and professional conduct. 

PPG is governed by a Board of Directors in accordance with our Corporate Governance Guidelines. As of early 2025, the PPG Board of Directors is made up of 10 members. PPG's Board is actively engaged in developing our strategy and overseeing its execution, including major business and organizational initiatives, capital allocation priorities and potential business development opportunities. The Board uses its experience in manufacturing, global business, science and technology, and marketing to oversee the execution of our strategy and capital allocation and works with senior management to guide our strategy.

Managing risk and compliance

The Executive Risk Committee (ERC), comprising the Executive Committee and the director, internal audit, leads our enterprise risk management processes, including our annual risk assessment. While the Audit Committee has primary responsibility for overseeing enterprise risk management, our entire Board is actively involved in risk management for PPG by engaging periodically with company officers and other employees as appropriate.

The Audit Committee of the Board is also responsible for overseeing ethics and compliance. We maintain an executive-level Global Ethics and Compliance Committee chaired by our CEO, as well as regional committees chaired by our regional business leaders.

Our compliance office is headed by our chief compliance officer (CCO), who reports to our senior vice president and general counsel. The CCO also reports to the Audit Committee two times per year. Employees in our global compliance office oversee general ethics and compliance matters, investigations, export compliance, data privacy,  ethics and compliance training and more. They are supported by hundreds of employees worldwide who help implement specific codes, policies and initiatives.

We conduct periodic global ethics and compliance risk assessments. We survey more than 100 country, regional and global leaders representing all our functions and business units regarding 44 legal and compliance risks across nine risk categories. We execute risk mitigation plans for the top three to five residual risks by region identified by these assessments. Risk categories considered in past assessments include:

• Anti-corruption
• Corporate compliance and culture
• Safety and protection of assets
• Export practices
• Intellectual Property
• Employee relations
• Regulatory
• Data privacy
• Third-party management

Codes and policies

The PPG Global Code of Ethics, which is available in 32 languages, sets forth the principles that apply to all employees – everywhere and in every circumstance. Supplementing the code are specific policies and procedures that include our Global Export Control Policy, Gifts, Hospitality, Sponsorships and Charitable Contributions Policy, Anti-Corruption Policy, Due Diligence Procedure for Third Party Intermediaries, Social Media Policy and Denied Country Policy, among others.

For additional information about our policies, as well as links to other public PPG policies, see our policies page on PPG.com.

Training and communications

Our employees have access to online trainings in multiple languages through our Learning Management System. These trainings cover, among other topics, anti-corruption, competition law, conflicts of interest, export compliance and the PPG Global Code of Ethics. We also deliver in-person training in every region, with particular focus in higher risk regions and for higher-risk topics.

Our ethics intranet site provides information on communications and training resources, policies and procedures as well as a mechanism for reporting ethics and compliance concerns. We also communicate with all employees on ethics and compliance topics throughout the year via:

• Virtual meetings
• Manager toolkits including presentation materials and discussion points
• Topic-specific flyers and materials distributed to manufacturing locations
• Discussion guides designed to help managers lead conversations on ethics and compliance topics.

We actively promote the availability of our incident reporting mechanisms and encourage employees to create a 'speak up' culture. To better reach frontline employees who don't work at a computer, we host live engagements with line managers and employees at our manufacturing and distribution facilities. Across the company, we distribute wallet cards and posters with QR codes that link to our incident reporting channels and Global Code of Ethics.

Additionally, our Speak Up Challenge provides a high-level review of our ethics and compliance investigations in the prior period, offers an in-depth look at a specific ethics or compliance issue and encourages employees to report concerns. Past topics have included inclusion, unprofessional behavior, workplace violence, sexual harassment, protection of proprietary information, and the value in speaking up/investigation process, among others.

We provide detailed information on request to our businesses and functions concerning the business' and functions' ethics and compliance training, ethics investigations, PPG Ethics helpline activity and compliance with our third-party due diligence program.

Reporting and investigations

The PPG Ethics Helpline is available for all employees and third parties, including customers and suppliers, to ask ethics and compliance questions or to report a concern. Anonymous reporting is available through the helpline.  The helpline is managed by an independent, third-party firm with multilingual representatives who are trained to listen carefully, ask questions and document the situation accurately.

Individuals also can contact several management resources, including our human resources staff or CCO to report concerns. It is against PPG policy to retaliate against anyone for making a good-faith report of a violation of law or the PPG Global Code of Ethics.

Our compliance office or human resources function handles all reported issues, with each taken seriously and appropriately addressed. Each case is assessed by an appropriately assigned functional or regional investigator or team. Investigators review and preserve relevant documentation, conduct interviews, communicate relevant findings, prepare a final report, and identify and ensure the completion of any appropriate corrective actions. Disciplinary actions are the responsibility of the human resources team in conjunction with legal, compliance and the business.

Although the complexity of any allegation may necessitate an extensive investigation, our goal is to close the investigation and case report in a timely manner. The person who reports the issue through the helpline is given a case number to anonymously check the status of their report throughout the process. To encourage involvement and promote transparency, we provide data on reported ethics concerns to our employees throughout the year.

We track post-investigation corrective actions, including by surveying known reporters who reported substantiated issues. Surveys focus on understanding the reporter's satisfaction with the handling of their concern to ensure that respondents are treated with respect and that concerns are handled in a professional and timely manner.

Sustainability governance

Our sustainability organization is responsible for developing our corporate sustainability strategy and working alongside our businesses and functions to execute that strategy. The organization is led by the vice president of global sustainability, and collaborates with teams across PPG to drive our sustainability efforts, including reducing the environmental impact of operations, mitigating severe weather impacts, identifying opportunities to increase sales of sustainably advantaged products and growing PPG’s positive impact on communities in which it operates.

The sustainability organization is assisted by our management-level Sustainability Committee, which assists with creating action plans and sustainability policies. The vice president, global sustainability, serves as the risk owner, and is responsible for: 

• Working with other risk owners and across the organization to facilitate and drive action on the top-tier sustainability risks
• Defining and monitoring appropriate leading and lagging indicators associated with these risks 
• Bringing other insights that might be considered relevant to the ERC for holistic, integrated management of sustainability risk across PPG

PPG's programs, initiatives and activities in the areas of environment, health, safety, technology and sustainability are overseen by The Sustainability and Innovation Committee of the Board, with support from other Board-level committees depending on the issues and risks involved. The Board engages with management on sustainability strategy, sustainability risks and opportunities, and has oversight of the tracking of our sustainability progress. The vice president, global sustainability, reports progress to the Sustainability and Innovation Committee three times per year, and the full Board of Directors once per year.