About Us

The Global Corporate Governance Forum is the leading knowledge and capacity building platform dedicated to corporate governance reform in emerging markets and developing countries. The Forum offers a unique collection of expertise, experiences, and solutions to key corporate governance issues from developed and developing countries.

The Forum’s mandate is to promote the private sector as an engine of growth, reduce the vulnerability of developing and emerging markets to financial crisis, and provide incentives for corporations to invest and perform efficiently in a transparent, sustainable, and socially responsible manner. In doing so, the Forum partners with international, regional, and local institutions, drawing on its network of global private-sector leaders.

The Forum is a multi-donor trust fund facility located within IFC, co-founded in 1999 by the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (Learn more about Forum's history.)

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The Forum has an extensive work program, based on the priorities defined in its charter. This new phase of activities (FY11-FY15) will build on the following strategic objectives:

• Develop and disseminate cutting edge knowledge products that will expand significantly the Forum’s global knowledge platform to provide enhanced support and access to international best practices in corporate governance.
• Build the capacity of regional centers of excellence for corporate governance and foster south-south co-operation. These centers will serve as a key distribution mechanism for the Forum’s knowledge products and their local application.
• Develop a monitoring and evaluation mechanism to support the global knowledge platform. M&E efforts will form an integral part of the Forum’s effort to create a dynamic and relevant platform by assessing the structure, content, and effectiveness of the Forum’s products, ensuring they remain relevant.

The work program of the Forum is executed, managed, and implemented by the Secretariat, which is the executive arm of the Forum. The Secretariat is also responsible for disbursing funding in accordance with the procedures and criteria agreed by the Steering Committee of Donors and Founders.

Steering Committee/Our Donor Partners

Currently the committee is chaired by Miguel Marques, a senior advisor with the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance. He is also the Alternate Director for Belgium, Luxembourg, and Slovenia at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.

Austria, Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank AG
Belgium, Flanders Investment and Trade


International Finance Corporation


Japan, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry


Luxembourg, The Ministry of Finance


Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs


Norway, The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs


Switzerland, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO




OUR FOUNDERS:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The World Bank