BIG News!
The Forum released Governing Banks, a new sector-specific curriculum for its Board Leadership Training Resources Toolkit. The supplement is a key milestone in the Forum’s Financial Markets Recovery Project (FMRP) to improve bank directors' financial risk-governance skills. An intensive bank director training program will follow in Indonesia and other East Asian countries through the Institute of Directors of East Asia (IDEA.net), in cooperation with IFC, the Indonesian Institute for Corporate Directorship (IICD), and Perbanas. Download an excerpt and the table of content.
Publications
Diversity at the Head Table: Bringing Complementary Skills and Experiences to the Board. Well-functioning board of directors needs diversity of perspectives. Diversity for its own sake, however, is not an improvement in governance; what matters is the combination of complementary skills and experiences to better address the challenges the company is likely to face. Private Sector Opinion by Dr. Yilmaz Argüden. Download.
The Moral Compass of Companies: Business Ethics and Corporate Governance as Anti-Corruption Tools.
The Focus, originally published by the Forum in 2009, is now available in French. The translation was completed and sponsored by CIPE. Download.
Good Governance: Key to Sustainability. Presentation by Jan-Olaf Willums, Member of the Forum’s Private Sector Advisory Group, at the Dubai Chamber-organized conference "Good Governance Matters." Download.
The Practical Guide to Corporate Governance: Experiences from the Latin American Companies Circle. Spanish and Portuguese versions are now also available!
From Our Partners
IFC Family Business Governance Handbook is a concise and practical description of essential family business governance components and suggested approaches to resolving common family business governance dilemmas. Available in 13 languages.
Corporate Governance Success Stories, by IFC Advisory Services, share the experiences of 11 companies in the Middle East and North Africa that have made governance improvements over the past few years.
Corporate Governance in Swenglish is an adaptation of the Forum's Board Leadership training materials and Swedish Corporate Governance cases, produced by the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance, a regional affiliate of the Forum.
In the Media
Progress in Brazil’s Corporate Governance Practices. Simon Wong, Member of the Forum's Private Sector Advisory Group, praised the progress in Brazil's corporate governance practices at the 11th Annual Conference of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC). In an interview with Brazil Economico, Simon Wong stated that the Novo Mercado, a listing segment for the trading of shares issued by companies that commit themselves to good corporate governance practices, is an inspiration for other countries like Mexico and the Philippines. (Portuguese)
Call for Papers
The Forum and the Asian Institute of Corporate Governance call for papers to be presented at the 3rd International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets, to be held May 28-29, 2011 in Seoul, Korea.
Verbatim
"We desperately need good governance, the rule of law, and transparent regulatory framework in the global economy to rebuild trust and regain moral integrity. We must promote courageous and responsible leaders to high places. And national governments will gain tremendously from following suit." Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, recipient of the 2010 Oslo Business for Peace Award.
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