The Corporate Revolutionary

A Global Governance Journey

  • 19 September 2024

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The journey towards global corporate governance harmonization is a complex and evolving process that seeks to create a more coordinated and unified approach to address the world’s most pressing business challenges.

 

Such a journey involves a diverse array of actors, including nation-states, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, and the private sector, all working together to craft solutions that transcend borders.

 

This journey is marked by efforts to navigate global issues such as climate change, economic inequality, cybersecurity, and social trust through collaborative policymaking and shared norms.

 

As we navigate this path, the tension between national culture and global cooperation remains a key challenge, often requiring innovative models that respect the interests of individual businesses and national imperatives while advancing common goals.

 

Ultimately, the success of global corporate governance harmonization hinges on building trust, enhancing dialogue, and fostering a spirit of collective responsibility among the global business community.

 

Mervyn King has played a significant role in navigating this global environment and facilitating global engagement to create both the demand for corporate accountability and the ability for corporates to demonstrate their accountability through effective corporate reporting. 

 

Join us as author of The Corporate Revolutionary and Mervyn King discusses this journey in a fireside chat.

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30/03/2021 Wits Business school
David Williams
Biotumelo Kuzwayo
Dr Lethiwe Nzama-Sithole
Prof Ben Marx
Vanessa Van Dyk

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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.”

David Williams

Leading financial journalist, broadcaster, teacher, and author.

David was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and Wits University, where his BA majors were History, English and Political Science. He also completed the Higher Diploma in Education (postgraduate).


Between 2003 and 2018 David served as Senior Anchor and interviewer on BDTV (formerly Summit TV) and CNBC Africa, performing some 4,500 interviews with listed company CEOs, economists and senior politicians. For much of his career he was a journalist at Financial Mail, at some stage running every department in this leading weekly publication and serving as Deputy Editor from 2007 to 2010. 


He has served as Deputy News and Sports Editor for Talk Radio 702 and has presented radio business programmes on SAfm and Classic FM. He continues to write for Financial Mail as a Contributing Editor.


David’s areas of expertise are governance, military history, railways, and education. He edited the King IV governance codes for the Institute of Directors, and the 2014 Defence Review for the Department of Defence. He has co-authored corporate histories for HL Hall & Sons and Talk Radio 702. He has recently assisted with the writing of personal memoirs for Basil Hersov (Anglo Vaal) and Dick Foxton, the leading communications consultant; and has written a biography of Prof Mervyn King SC.


David has written several books on rugby, cricket, and military history, and is at present completing a major work on the South African railways, “On the Railway/Op Die Spoorweg”, commissioned by Tafelberg.

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