Ansie Ramalho is a lawyer by training and an authority on corporate governance with both theoretical and applied knowledge on the topic. She consults, presents, trains and writes on the various aspects of corporate law, directors’ duties and governance. She believes that corporate governance can and should be harnessed for the benefit of the economy, society and the natural environment.

Ansie serves as a professional non-executive director and her current directorships include the boards of KPMG South Africa and The South African National Blood Service NPC. She has been conferred the Chartered Director (SA) designation by the Institute of Directors South Africa (IoDSA).

She regularly facilitates training on corporate governance and company law for the IoDSA and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Sponsorship Development Programme offered by KAR. In addition, Ansie provides corporate governance consulting and advisory services on an ad hoc-basis to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a subsidiary of the World Bank – working predominantly in sub-Sahara Africa. Her more recent IFC assignments involved reviewing the code of corporate governance for the Rwanda Capital Market Authority and the drafting of listings requirements pertaining to corporate governance for the Ghana Stock Exchange.

Ansie is a member of a number of technical committees, including the King Committee on Corporate Governance for South Africa and the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa. She is also the appointed examiner for the Chartered Director designation of the IoDSA. Ansie is also certified as a results coach.

From August 2014 to November 2016 Ansie was the appointed King IV Project Lead with responsibility for the successful finalisation of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa, 2016. This role involved the design of the project and its governance structures, oversight of project implementation, stakeholder engagement and the drafting of the King IV Report.



Ansie’s prior positions include being the Chief Executive of the IoDSA from 2010 to 2014. Before joining the IoDSA, Ansie cut her business teeth at KPMG in the corporate restructuring and recovery environment with assignments that included the Saambou Bank receivership and Kebble insolvency. Ansie played a key role in respect of both. The experience on business failure was applied with much fruit when she later took up the position as a dedicated corporate governance specialist