is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes. He has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Universities of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Leeds in the UK, an honorary Doctorate from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and a honorary Doctorate in Commerce from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, is Chair Emeritus of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced King I, II, III and IV, and Chair of the Good Law Foundation.

He is Chair Emeritus of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in London and of the Global Reporting Initiative in Amsterdam and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance. He chaired the United Nations Committee of Eminent persons on Governance and Oversight and was President of the Advertising Standards Authority for 15 years and a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris for seven years. He is chair of the African Integrated Reporting Council and chair of the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa.

He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for promoting quality corporate governance globally from the ICGN, the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance, the Indian IOD and the Regenesys Business School. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; of the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK, of the Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Chartered Director of South Africa. He has been a chair, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges.

He has consulted, advised and spoken on legal, business, advertising, sustainability and corporate governance issues in over 60 countries and has received many awards from international bodies around the world including the World Federation of Stock Exchanges and the International Federation of Accountants. He is the author of five books on governance, sustainability and reporting, the latest being “The Auditor. Quo Vadis.” He sits as an arbitrator and mediator internationally.

Prof. Mahendra Chouhan is Professor, Author, Board Advisor on Corporate Governance, Sustainability & Integrated Thinking & Reporting. He is Founding Chairman of Fino Payment Bank in India and has been a consultant to IFC – World Bank Group, in Corporate Governance area. Mahendra is Managing Director of a successful Board Advisory company – Mahendra & Ardneham Consulting, specialising in Aligning and embedding Governance & Sustainability in the business Strategy. Advises Companies on building cohesive & high performing Boards & selection of Independent Directors. His current crusade is to help companies align Sustainable Development Goals with their Business Strategy and reap the US$ 12 trn new business opportunities being thrown up by SDGs. He is Chairman Mahendra & Young Knowledge Foundation & Vice Chairman of Global Advisory Board of, Asian Centre for Corporate Governance & Sustainability. Outside India, Mahendra is Member of the Global Board of International Institute of Governance & Leadership. Member of the prestigious International Integrated Reporting & Connectivity Council, - The IRCC, which is an advisory body to the IFRS Foundation Trustees, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), providing guidance on how reporting required by the IASB and the ISSB could be integrated, and how the IASB and the ISSB could consider applying principles and concepts from the Integrated Reporting Framework to their projects. He is member of Independent Appointment Committee of GRI, Amstardam.

Mahendra is MBA with Finance specialisation and has done a course for board of Directors on ‘Governing the Corporation : Global Perspectives in the Indian Context’ from Wharton Business School USA. He has over 40yrs of rich experience in MNCs & Indian Cos and over 35 yrs in Board Advisory, Management Education & management consulting.

He was member of the prestigious & Corporate Governance committee of Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Mahendra sits on the Boards of several companies as Independent Director from a variety of sectors like Banking, Housing Finance, Education Finance, Capital Goods, Exposition & Realty, B2B Market Place & e-commerce. In past he has been on the board of IT, Telecommunications & Pharma Companies.

Mahendra has Co-authored two International Books on Corporate Governance, one published from Singapore & other published by Institute of Directors, from London. He taught Corporate Governance at Tilburg Law School, Netherlands, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) SJSoM, and currently visiting professor at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. Mahendra is married to Anita and has two adorable daughters Bhoomika & Koumudi. He relies on yoga for his mental health and Golf on his physical health.

Izumi Kobayashi is currently External Director, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Japan since 2014 and an external director of Ana Holdings Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group. She was appointed a Vice Chair of the Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) in April 2015. Between November 2008 and June 2013 she was CEO and Executive Vice President of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (‘MIGA’) in the World Bank Group. Prior to joining MIGA, she was President and Representative Director of Merrill Lynch Japan. She held a number of high-level global leadership roles with Merrill Lynch after joining in 1985. She is a former director of the Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. She started her career with Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Ltd (currently Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation) in 1981.

She is active in promoting opportunities for women and young professionals in the workplace and is Co-Chair of Women Corporate Directors, Japan Chapter.

Roberto F. de Ocampo is former Minister of Finance of Philippines. He has 40 years’ experience in development finance in various capacities with Philippine Government agencies and with multilateral development financing institutions. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) in 1989-1994. During his term, he established several ground breaking initiatives such as the Private Sector Infrastructure Development Fund to finance Build-Operate-Transfer projects, the issuance of DBP Eurobonds, the issuance the country’s first municipal bonds, and the launch of Philippines Strategic Holdings, a first-of-its-kind Philippine equity fund. As Finance Minister of the Philippines (1994-98), Mr. de Ocampo, was the de facto architect of the Philippines’ economic revival in the mid-1990s.

He served as the President of the Asian Institute of Management for six years. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of both the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank; Alternate Governor of the International Monetary Fund; Chairman of the APEC Finance Ministers and of the ASEAN Finance Ministers, and Chairman of various Philippine Government financial institutions and high-level councils and committees, including the Committee on Privatization, the Fiscal Incentives Review Board, the Investment Coordinating Committee, the Joint Legislative-Executive Foreign Debt Council, and the Task Force on Tax Reforms.

Mr. de Ocampo holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, a Fellowship in Developmental Administration from the London School of Economics, and honorary doctorate degrees in Business Administration, Public Administration, and Law from several Philippine universities. He is based in Manila.

Chris Pierce is the CEO and founder of Global Governance Services Ltd. He holds a number of board appointments in the UK and overseas. He is a regular chairman and speaker at international conferences and has written many articles and books on corporate governance. His latest book, “Corporate Governance in the Gulf”, was published in January 2012.

He was formerly Director of Professional Standards and Professional Development at the Institute of Directors (IoD) in the UK. Prior to joining the IoD he was the Director of the Centre for Director Education at Leeds Business School and has held senior management positions in British Airways and the Overseas Development Administration.

Chris is a Fellow of the Caux Round Table and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has an MBA, an MSc and an MPhil and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

Chris is based in the GGS office in London and works worldwide.

Mr. Nasser Munjee studied at the Leys School in Cambridge, UK and then went on to do his Bachelor and Masters Degrees at the London School of Economics, UK. He spent a short while at the University of Chicago, USA, before returning to India in 1977. He joined Mr. H.T. Parekh, then Chairman of one of India's leading development banks to establish the first housing finance company in India, i.e. HDFC. Over the years, HDFC group grew to be a financial conglomerate and Mr. Nasser Munjee rose to be an executive director on the Board with wide responsibilities.

From 1997 to 2004, Mr. Nasser Munjee headed IDFC, an institution created to lead infrastructure finance. Since 2004, Mr. Nasser Munjee has been pursuing his own interests in his own way. He has a wide experience of having set on the board of several public companies as an Independent Director in India which include Tata Motors Limited , Tata Chemicals Limited, Britannia Industries Limited, Cummins India Limited, ABB India Limited, Ambuja Cements Limited (now part of the HOLCIM group), HDFC Limited, Go Airlines (India) Limited. He is Former Chairman of DCB Bank Limited and Tata Motors Finance Ltd. He is also the Chairman of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, India and director of Indian Institute for Human Settlements, both not-for-profit companies. He was the President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the city's oldest Chamber of Commerce and he has served on numerous Government Task Forces on housing, infrastructure and urban development.

Mr. Humayun Dhanrajgir is former Executive Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Glaxo India. He was appointed to the Board of Glaxo in March 1978, and became MD in 1990.

He is Former Managing Director of Kodak India Ltd. In the beginning of his career he has also worked with MNCs like, British Oxygen Company, U.K. as Process Design Engineer and Burmah-Shell India, Marketing Division.

He was President, Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) from October 1992 to September 1994 and Vice President (OPPI) for 2 years – 1990/91 and 1991/92. Past Member, General Committee, Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) for 2 years. Past Vice-Chairman, Indo-British Business Committee, BCCI.

He has a wide experience as independent director on several public limited companies boards like: German Remedies Limited, Ciba Specialty Chemical (India) Limited, HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd, Neuland Laboratories Ltd., Hyderabad, Kodak Nepal Pvt. Ltd, Construction Portal Pvt. Ltd,

He is B.Tech.(Chem Eng.) Loughborough University, U.K., M.I.Chem.E.(Lon.), C.Eng.(Lon.), A.M.P.(Harvard).

His other interests in life are Golf, Bridge, Billiards/Snooker, Jazz music, Reading.

Dr Moses Mo-Chi CHENG, GBM, GBS, OBE, JP is a practising solicitor and a consultant of Messrs P C Woo & Co, one of the longest established firms of solicitors in Hong Kong; after serving as its senior partner for 22 years. He is the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, of which he is now the Honorary President and Chairman Emeritus. He is currently Chairman of the Council of the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong and Chancellor of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. He also serves as a member of the Financial Leadership Forum. Dr Cheng was the first Chairman of the Insurance Authority, Opera Hong Kong. He previously served as Chairman of, among others, the Board of Education, the Education Commission and the Council of the Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr Cheng was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2016.

Mr. Minoo Shroff Shroff is a noted Business Economist and Fellow of Institute of Management Accountants, London. He is also a Fellow of Institute of Directors, London. Having sat on the boards of nearly 35 odd companies during last 30 years Mr. Shroff is one of the most experienced Independent Director in India. He is Former Vice-Chairman of Raymond Ltd. India’s premier Textile Company. He has been a corporate Advisor and several on the board of over odd companies during the last 30 years and is one of the most experienced Independent Directors in Bombay. Mr. Shroff has a versatile professional career. He is Past President of Bombay management Association and has been a visiting lecturer at various Management Institutes for over 20 years. He was invited by US AID in 1963 as one of the to multipliers from India to take part in the Advance Management Programme organised by US AID at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Mr. Shroff has had close association with Japan and was President of Indo Japanese Association in the 1980s. In 2000 he was awarded the Highest Civilian Award by the Emperor of Japan for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of business and friendship between India and Japan. He is a strong advocate of the market economy and private enterprise and has strongly espoused its cause over the last 40 years in his public speeches and writings. He is Former President of Forum of Free Enterprise.