13th Colloquium

Sensible Regulation and Sensible De-regulation

Optimizing Governance: where regulation and deregulation align

  • 15 May 2025

In today’s complex regulatory and geopolitical landscape,

finding the right balance between oversight and flexibility is crucial for sustainable growth and innovation.

 

This Colloquium will explore where regulation and deregulation align,

offering expert perspectives on how to foster efficiency, accountability, and economic progress.

Background

In an ever-evolving economic and regulatory landscape, governments and industries constantly face the challenge of striking the right balance between regulation and deregulation.

 

While regulation ensures accountability, stability, and consumer protection, excessive or outdated rules can stifle innovation, hinder business growth, and create unnecessary bureaucratic burdens. Conversely, deregulation can unlock new opportunities, enhance competitiveness, and reduce inefficiencies—but without careful oversight, it may also lead to market failures or increased risks. Understanding where these two forces align is critical to developing policies that promote both economic progress and responsible governance.

 

This Colloquium brings together thought leaders to explore how the changing regulatory frameworks  and geopolitical context can be optimized for efficiency and effectiveness. Through insightful discussions, real-world case studies, and policy analyses, participants will gain a deeper understanding of when and how regulations should be adjusted to support innovation while maintaining essential safeguards. By examining sectors that have successfully balanced these approaches, the session will highlight best practices and actionable strategies for achieving sustainable strategies and economic certainty.

 

Whether you are a business leader navigating compliance requirements, a policymaker shaping the future of governance, or an industry professional seeking clarity on evolving regulations, this webinar will provide valuable insights. Attendees will leave with a clearer perspective on the interplay between regulation and deregulation, empowering them to advocate for policies that drive economic resilience and sustainable development.

DETAIL

 

DATE:
15 May 2025

 

TIME: 

07:00 – 10:00 ET

11:00 – 14:00 UTC

12:00 – 15:00 UK

13:00 – 16:00 CEST

13:00 – 16:00 South Africa

14:00 – 17:00 Saudi Arabia

16:30 – 19:30 India

19:00 – 22:00 China

20:00 – 23:00 Japan

2100 – 24:00 Sydney

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VENUE

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Certificates of Attendance are applicable for

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Opening of the Colloquium

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Introduction to the 12th Colloquium topic

Key Note Presentations

Cas Coovadia
Agnes Tai
David Carlin
Caroline Rees

Facilitated panel discussion

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Questions from attendees to the speakers

Carolynn Chalmers

Closing of the Colloquium

Closing by the Chair

DETAIL

 

DATE:
15 May 2025

 

TIME: 

07:00 – 10:00 ET

11:00 – 14:00 UTC

12:00 – 15:00 UK

13:00 – 16:00 CEST

13:00 – 16:00 South Africa

14:00 – 17:00 Saudi Arabia

16:30 – 19:30 India

19:00 – 22:00 China

20:00 – 23:00 Japan

2100 – 24:00 Sydney

VENUE

Free Online Webinar

Register Now

Certificates of Attendance are applicable for

CPD / CPE purposes

Register Here

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Alan Johnson

Chair of the Good Governance Academy

Alan Johnson is the immediate past President of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). He previously served as Deputy President from 2018-2020 and had been a board member since November 2015. He was nominated to the IFAC board by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

 

On January 1, 2021, Alan was appointed a non-executive director and member of the Audit and the Succession & Appointments Committees of Imperial Brands plc, a FTSE 100 company in the UK.

 

Alan is a former non-executive Director of Jerónimo Martins SGPS, S.A., a food retailer with operations in Portugal, Poland, and Colombia, having completed his board mandate in 2016. 

He is currently the independent chairman of the company’s Internal Control Committee. Previously he was Chief Financial Officer of Jerónimo Martins from 2012 to 2014.

 

Between 2005 and 2011 Alan served as Chief Audit Executive for the Unilever Group. He also served as Chief Financial Officer of Unilever’s Global Foods businesses and worked for Unilever for 35 years in various finance positions in Africa, Europe and Latin America.

 

Mr. Johnson was a member of the IFAC Professional Accountants in Business Committee between 2011 and 2015, a member of the ACCA’s Market Oversight Committee between 2006 and 2012 and chair of the ACCA Accountants for Business Global Forum until 2018. Alan was a member of the board of Gildat Strauss Israel between 2003 and 2004.

 

Mr. Johnson is the chair of the board of governors of St. Julian’s School in Portugal and chairs its Finance & Bursaries Committees.

 

In October 2016 he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the International Valuation Standards Council and chairs its audit committee.

 

Between July 2018 and September 2020 he was a non-executive director of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and chaired its Audit & Risk Assurance Committee.

Carolynn Chalmers

Chief Executive Officer, Good Governance Academy

Carolynn Chalmers is the Chief Executive Officer of Professor Mervyn King’s Good Governance Academy and its initiative, The ESG Exchange. She has edited two international standards: ISO 37000:2021 – Governance of organizations – Guidance and its associated Governance Maturity Model, ISO 37004:2023.

 

Carolynn makes corporate dreams come true, assisting leaders and leadership teams in how to create value for their organisations. She makes use of her expertise and experience in corporate governance, organizational strategy, Digital Transformation, and IT to do so.

 

Carolynn is an Independent Committee Member of South Africa’s largest private Pension Fund, the Eskom Pension and Provident Fund, and recently retired as Independent Committee member of several board committees for the Government Employee Medical Scheme. Carolynn has extensive management, assurance and governance experience and has held various Executive roles for international, listed, private and public organisations across many industries.

 

Carolynn is best known for her successes in establishing governance frameworks, and designing and the leading large, complex initiatives that can result. She attributes this success to the application of good governance principles. She shares her insights on her 2 LinkedIn Groups – Applying King IV and Corporate Governance Institute. 

Prof. Mervyn King

Patron, Good Governance Academy

Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel, former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and designated Chartered Director (South Africa). He is Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa, Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town, and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes University. He has honorary Doctorates from Wits University and Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Leeds University in the UK, and Deakin University in Australia.

 

Mervyn is honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK, and the Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

 

Mervyn is Chair Emeritus of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, as well as of the Value Reporting Foundation (incorporating the International Integrated Reporting Council and SASB) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for promoting quality corporate governance globally, from several institutions.

 

Mervyn chairs the Good Law Foundation and has chaired the United Nations Committee of Eminent persons on Governance and Oversight. He is a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the World Bank on Corporate Governance and of the ICC Court of Arbitration in Paris. Mervyn currently chairs the African Integrated Reporting Council and the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa and is Patron of the Good Governance Academy.

 

Mervyn 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 many books on governance, sustainability and reporting, the latest being “The Healthy Company.”

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