The third Virtual Training Program “Governance for Directors (formerly Corporate Governance Action Planning Workshop)” was successfully completed on 16th and 18th December 2020. 17 board directors, senior executives, and corporate governance practitioners from 14 companies and government agencies attended MIoD’s 2-Day Online Course. The workshop is part of MIoD Learning Series and it provides a deep dive into the fundamentals of the corporate governance framework and helps directors and executives develop a plan for implementing effective governance practices in their companies. An expert team from MIoD, IFC, Dentons Myanmar Limited and World Bank delivered the workshop with both local and foreign expert facilitators.

Programme Synopsis

The Myanmar Institute of Directors (MIoD), in collaboration with the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM) and the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), is delighted to deliver a special programme featuring three esteemed board directors.

Sir John Tusa will first provide a discussion on his latest book “On Board: The Insider’s Guide to Surviving Life in the Boardroom” where he recounts hist last three decades a member or chair of many major cultural and academic boards. He will share candid and deep insights into the practicalities, challenges and opportunities of good governance at the highest levels.

His insights and observations are distilled from some vivid case studies of events on seven major boards: National Portrait Gallery, English National Opera, American Public Radio, British Museum, Wigmore Hall, University of the Arts London and Clore Leadership Programme. 

Based on almost a hundred “on-the-record” interviews with board member from many skills and professions, this is an account of the human interactions, the successes, the failures, the human tragedies that occur around the board table in pursuit of the elusive goal of “good governance”.

Sir John Tusa will then be joined by Ms. Dato’ Dr. Zaha Rina, Chairman/Independent Non-Executive Director, Manulife Holdings Berhad and Mr. Ferdinand (Ferry) de Bakker, Council Member of Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) for a discussion exchanging their many years’ of experience serving as board directors of prominent institutions around the world.

The programme will be moderated by Thiri Thant Mon, CEO of the MIoD.

Learning Outcomes/Takeaways

• There is no difference between a corporate board and a “not-for-profit” board. In fact, cultural boards are often harder to run.
• Unless the chair and chief executive work in close partnership, the organisation will not succeed in being at its best.
• An effective board member brings their best judgement to the table, not only their specific skills.
• “Governance is governance and management is management”.

Target Audience

• All Directors from public & private sectors
• Governance professionals
• C-Suites Executives & Senior Management working with Boards

 

Date & Time	:     10th December 2020 | 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm (Myanmar Time)
Registration	:     [Click here]
Brochure	:    [Click here]
Language	:     English

SPEAKERS

	Sir John Tusa is a British arts administrator, author, journalist, and former presenter of BBC’s Newsnight. He is the co-chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra and was formerly the managing director of the BBC World Service and the Barbican Arts Cen tre. As Managing Director of the BBC External Services, he set up BBC World Service Television. He is also a writer whose books include Pain in the Arts and Making a Noise: Getting it Right, Getting it Wrong in Life, the Arts and Broadcasting.
	Dato’ Dr Zaha has more than 25 years experience in the financial, commodities and securities industr, and the development of the Malaysian Capital Market. She is currently the Chairman of Manulife Holdings Bhd and a Member of its Nominating/Remuneration Committee. She is a Board Member of Hong Leong Industries Bhd, Tanah Makmur Berhad and several private limited companies. She is also a member of Market Participants Committee (MPC) of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, and the director of The Kuala Lumpur Business Club.  An ardent supporter of causes that enable women to enhance their contribution in society, Dato’ Dr Zaha Rina has organised many fund-raising activities for related NGOs. She is the Honorary Treasurer of Badan Warisan Malaysia. She is also a consultant to the Olave Baden Powell Society which raises funds for the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. She was a member of Global Board of Advisers for XBRL until 2009 and was also on the Board of Trustee for Malaysia AIDS Foundation until May 2010.
	Mr. Ferdinand (‘Ferry’) de Bakker is an adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Technology University’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information in Singapore. He is chairman of Cognac Grosperrin in France; and managing director of La Croisette, a boutique consulting firm in Singapore. He serves on boards and committees of multiple non-profits in Singapore and is a council member at the Singapore Institute of Directors. He had a two-decades long career at the international public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, first as a country manager, and later as CEO of its European and Asia-Pacific operations. He has served as an independent director on boards in several European countries. He has written for various publications The Netherlands, the UK, France and Singapore on education, corporate communication and lifestyle matters.
	Thiri Thant Mon is the CEO of the Myanmar Institute of Directors and the Managing Partner of Pegu Partners. She has over 20 years of experience in the US, UK and Myanmar, including as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and the member of the senior management team at Yoma Strategic Holdings in Myanmar.  She is a board member of Dawn Microfinance Myanmar and a trustee for Turquoise Mountain Foundation, Yangon Heritage Trust and Doh Eain. She holds a BA in Economics from William & Mary and an MBA from the London Business School.

This virtual event proposes to bring together Myanmar policy-makers, international experts, the private sector and civil society to share perspectives and discuss policy options to attract responsible investment that can help foster a sustainable recovery and contribute towards improving the lives of Myanmar people and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The opening session of the High-Level Event will benefit from remarks from the Union Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations, the Minister, Deputy Head of Mission and Head of Co-operation of the Government of Switzerland in Myanmar, the Minister Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission of the Government of Norway in Myanmar and the European Union Ambassador to Myanmar.

The first panel session will mark the launch of the 2nd Investment Policy Review (IPR) of Myanmar. Building on the findings and recommendations from the IPR, panellists will discuss key developments and challenges for Myanmar to enhance its capacity to attract responsible investments that can truly contribute towards meeting the SDGs and improving the lives of Myanmar people. The review benefited from the support of the Governments of Norway and Switzerland. (MIoD patron Permanent Secretary of MiFER U Aung Naing Oo and MIoD CEO Thiri Thant Mon will be contributing as a panellists in this session.)

The second panel session will address the topic “Attracting quality investment and building resilience through RBC and international labour standards”, to discuss how RBC standards and instruments can help build sustainable and resilient global value chains and contribute to economic, environmental and social progress in Myanmar, particularly in the context of economic and social recovery following the COVID-19 crisis. This session is part of the European Union-funded Responsible Supply Chains in Asia programme (RSCA), a partnership between the EU, the ILO, and the OECD.

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The second Virtual Training Program “Corporate Governance Action Planning Workshop” was successfully completed on 18th and 20th November 2020. 14 board directors, senior executives, and corporate governance practitioners from 10 companies and government agencies attended MIoD’s 2-Day Online Course. The workshop is part of MIoD Learning Series and it provides a deep dive into the fundamentals of the corporate governance framework and helps directors and executives develop a plan for implementing effective governance practices in their companies. An expert team from MIoD, IFC, Dentons Myanmar Limited and World Bank delivered the workshop with both local and foreign expert facilitators.

MIoD conducted first Virtual Training Program “Corporate Governance Action Planning Workshop” on 21st and 23rd October 2020. 32 board directors, senior executives, and corporate governance practitioners from 23 companies and government agencies attended MIoD’s 2-Day Online Course. The workshop is part of MIoD Learning Series and it provides a deep dive into the fundamentals of the corporate governance framework and helps directors and executives develop a plan for implementing effective governance practices in their companies. An expert team from MIoD, IFC, Livingstons Legal and World Bank delivered the workshop with both local and foreign expert facilitators.

Note: This webinar has been completed and if you would like to watch recording CLICK HERE.

 

မြန်မာကုမ္ပဏီဒါရိုက်တာများသည် အကျိုးအမြတ်ရရှိပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု (Beneficial Ownership) အကြောင်းနှင့် ပတ်သက်၍ မည်သည့်အရာများကိုသိသင့်ရန်လိုအပ်ပါသနည်း။

အကျိုးအမြတ်ရရှိပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု (Beneficial Ownership) နှင့် ၎င်းနှင့်ဆက်စပ်သာ နိုင်ငံရေးအရ  ဩဇာတိက္ကမ ရှိသူများ (Politically Exposed Persons) ဆိုသောသဘောတရားများသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် အရင်းတနှီး မရှိသေးပါ။ မကြာသေးမီက ထိုဝေါဟာရများကို စည်းမျဉ်းစည်းကမ်းအနေဖြင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် စတင်မိတ်ဆက်ခဲ့သည်။ တစ်ချက်မှာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ သဘာ၀သယံဇာတအရင်းအမြစ်များ ဖော်ထုတ်လုပ်ရေးဆိုင်ရာ ပွင့်လင်းမြင်သာမှုဖော်ဆောင်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (MEITI) ၏ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်များ ဖြစ်သည်။ ထို့အပြင် OECD ဘဏ္ဍာ ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှုအဖွဲ့ (Financial Action Task Force) ၏ အကဲဖြတ်မှုအပေါ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ တုန့်ပြန်မှုအနေဖြင့် ငွေကြေးခဝါချခြင်းအားတိုက်ဖျက်ချေမှုန်းခြင်း (Anti-money laundering) ၏ လိုအပ်ချက်များတွင်လည်း ထိုဝေါဟာရများပါဝင်သည်။  ၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ်၊ နို၀င်ဘာလတွင် DICA သည်  အကျိုးအမြတ်ရရှိပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုသတင်းအချက်အလက်များကိုထုတ်ဖော်ရန်ညွှန်ကြားချက်၁၇/၂၀၁၉ အား ထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။

ဤ MIoD Webinar (မြန်မာဘာသာဖြင့်) တွင် Beneficial Ownership ဆိုသည်မှာ အဘယ်နည်းနှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် မည်သည့် ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များသည် Politically Exposed Persons ဖြစ်သည်ကို ဆန်းစစ်လိမ့်မည်။ ထုတ်ဖော်ကြေငြာခြင်း လိုအပ်ချက်များနှင့် လိုက်လျောညီထွေဖြစ်ရန် ကုမ္ပဏီများအနေဖြင့် မည်သည့် အရာများလုပ်ဆောင်ရန် လိုအပ်သည်ကို DICA မှ နောက်ဆုံး သတင်းများပေးလိမ့်မည်။ ထို့အပြင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာတို့တွင် ဆက်လက် ဆွေးနွေးနေကြသော ကုမ္ပဏီပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု၏ ပွင့်လင်း မြင်သာမှု ကိစ္စရပ်များကိုလည်း ဖော်ပြလိမ့်မည်။ ထို့အပြင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာတို့တွင် ဤကဏ္ဍ အကြောင်း ဆက်လက်ဆောင်ရွက်မှုများကို ဆွေးနွေးလိမ့်မည်။

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Beneficial ownership (BO), and the related concept of politically exposed persons (PEPs) are relatively new to Myanmar. They have recently been introduced into regulation through both the Myanmar Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (MEITI) and the introduction of requirements to combat money-laundering as part of Myanmar’s response to the assessment by the OECD’s Financial Action Task Force.  In November 2019, DICA issued a Directive 17/2019 on disclosure of beneficial ownership information. 

This MIOD webinar (in Myanmar language) will examine what BO is and who in Myanmar is a ‘PEP’. It will offer an update from DICA on what companies need to do to comply with disclosure requirements.  It will also cover wider developments in transparency of company ownership at Myanmar and international level. 

 

Date & Time	:           10:00 am – 11:30 am, 29th September 2020
Registration	:           [Click here]
Details agenda	:           [Click here]
Language	:           Myanmar

 

*Please register by 27th September 2020

 

SPEAKERS

	Myo Min is a Director at the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA), in Myanmar’s Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations (MIFER).  He served in the military as an engineer from 1994 to 2006, before being appointed to be Assistant Director in the Office of the Minister of National Planning and Economic Development. He was promoted to Deputy Director in 2009, and in 2011 to Deputy Head of Office in MNPED (now MOPFI).  Myo Min transferred to DICA  as a Director in November 2012 where he was responsible for the Company Affairs Division and played a leading role in the implementation of a new only company registry system (MyCo) following the adoption of the 2017 Myanmar Companies Law. He now represents the regulator in investment related matters in support of the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC).
	Tun focuses on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures in a range of industry sectors including insurance, financial services, telecommunications, technology, hospitality and real estate. Tun is currently based in Singapore and regularly advises multinational companies on all corporate aspects of their investments and business operations in emerging jurisdictions in Asia (including structuring, investment commission approvals and corporate governance matters). Tun started his legal career in London with a large international law firm and also spent two years at BCLP’s London office. Tun is originally from Yangon and he is one of the few international corporate lawyers with Myanmar language skills.
	Aye Kyithar Swe is the Interim Country Manager of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in Myanmar. In this role, she has worked on beneficial ownership, extractive data use, and technical assistance to the Myanmar government on these issues in addition to advancing NRGI’s country strategy and overseeing all program implementation. She has previously worked on political and economic research, business intelligence and investigative due diligence, and corporate social responsibility with a social enterprise in Myanmar and multinational companies in Singapore and India.
	Vicky has been a member of the Board of MIOD since March 2018 and is Chair of the Learning Committee. Vicky Bowman has been the Director of Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB) since July 2013. Prior to that, she led global mining company Rio Tinto’s policy approach to transparency, human rights and resource nationalism/resource curse issues from 2011. She was Director of Global & Economic Issues and G8 sous-Sherpa for the United Kingdom from 2008-2011 and Head of the Southern Africa Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Government from 2006-2007. Vicky served as ambassador of the UK to Myanmar from 2002-2006 and as second secretary in the Embassy from 1990-1993. She has also worked in Brussels as Member of Cabinet of European Commissioner Chris Patten (1999-2002) and as press spokeswoman for the UK representation to the EU (1996-1999). Vicky has an MA in Natural Sciences (Pathology) from University of Cambridge, is an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of University of Bradford (Division of Peace Studies and International Development). She speaks Burmese and is married to Myanmar artist Htein Lin.