Course description

Keynote address by SGX RegCo by Mr Tan Boon Gin

Keynote presentation: Enhancing Board Performance by Professor Mak Yuen Teen 

·       Brief Overview of Roles and Responsibilities of the Board, and the Board’s Conformance/Compliance Role and Value Creation/“Performance” Role  

·       Characteristics of High-Performing Boards 

·       Discharging the Board’s Compliance Role

·       Discharging the Board’s Value Creation Role

Mastering Corporate Strategies and Tactics by Mr Colin Low

·       Introduction to the Corporate Strategy Process in Boards   

·       Board Calendar, Policy, Process & Performance Measurement milestones

·       What is Globalization vs Localisation strategies? Vertical vs Horizontal Strategies 

·       Evaluate various business models and their impact on value creation

·       Corporate Vision Mission and Values

·       Specific example of an industry, country, company strategy: EVs

·       Leveraging technology for performance measure and monitoring

Strategic Stakeholder Engagement for Board Excellence by Datuk Shireen Muhiudeen

·       Key stakeholders of the business    

·       Communication with stakeholders for listed entities   

·       Understand how businesses and boards are responding to sustainability agenda   

·       Obligations of the Board regarding shareholder rights, corporate reporting and disclosures

·       Importance and nature of investors and media relations and how the Board should prepare for and respond to crisis   

·       Communication on transformation change for agility and sustainability

Panel Discussion with live Q&A

ISCA Academy

Professor Mak Yuen Teen

Mak Yuen Teen is a professor (practice) of accounting and former Vice Dean of the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, where he teaches corporate governance. He holds first class honours, master and PhD degrees in accounting and finance and is a fellow of CPA Australia. He was the founder and director of the first corporate governance centre in Singapore at the National University of Singapore. Prof Mak has also held positions of Asia-Pacific or Singapore head of research in major consulting firms.Prof Mak has served on key corporate governance committees in Singapore developing and revising codes of corporate governance for listed companies and not-for-profit organisations. He has also been involved in developing several corporate governance ratings and scorecards and has chaired judging panels for corporate governance-related awards in Singapore and the region.Prof Mak is an active researcher, commentator, speaker and advocate on corporate governance. He has published reports on topics such as corporate governance of banks and insurance companies, board diversity, governance of company groups, annual general meetings, and executive and director remuneration. Each year, he edits a collection of corporate governance case studies published by CPA Australia, and a selection of these cases have also been translated to Chinese and Vietnamese. He has also co-produced three volumes of corporate governance cartoons, with all proceeds from these donated to charities.Prof Mak’s recent reports and research on sustainability cover topics such as linking ESG factors to executive remuneration, sustainability governance structures and practices, board oversight of climate risks and opportunities, materiality assessment of ESG factors, and sustainability assurance.He has published research on corporate governance and accounting in academic journals such as Accounting Horizons, British Accounting Review, International Journal of Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and Journal of Corporate Finance. Prof Mak has also edited a book on corporate governance in Asia and adapted US financial accounting textbooks for Singapore.He is regularly engaged by regulators, companies and other organisations to teach/facilitate workshops for directors, regulators and other industry professionals in Singapore and the region, and has also led governance reviews for listed companies and not-for-profit organisations.Prof Mak has served on boards of several large not-for-profit organisations in Singapore, including as board chairman, and on audit committees of large not-for-profit organisations in Singapore and in UN funds based in New York. He also served as a member of the Governing Council of the Singapore Institute of Directors from 2000 to 2005. He is currently a member of the international advisory board of the Hawkamah Institute of Corporate Governance in Dubai and senior adviser and member of the advisory board of the Vietnam Independent Directors Association.In 2014, he received the Corporate Governance Excellence Award from the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) for his contributions to corporate governance in Singapore, becoming only the second individual to receive this award. In 2015, he received the Excellence in Corporate Governance Award from the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group in Malaysia for his contributions to corporate governance in the region. That same year, he was recognised by the Singapore Institute of Directors as a Corporate Governance Pioneer in Singapore.

Colin Low

Mr Colin Low is a global independent director of AET Tankers where he chairs the audit and risk management committee. He is also an independent director of SGX-listed Jason Marine Group where he chairs the remuneration and nomination committees. A former chairman of Intraco and Singapore Investment Development Corporation, he has held key appointments at General Electric. Mr Low is a Senior Advisory Board Member of Diligent Institute – a global corporate governance and think-tank of the Diligent Corporation – based in New York. He was certified as a Board Climate Change Leader in April 2022 and graduated from the Board Cybersecurity and Strategy program in June 2023. Both certifications were awarded by Diligent Institute. He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors and Hong Kong Institute of Directors and a certified international board director by INSEAD.

Datuk Shireen Muhiudeen

Datuk Shireen’s career spans over 30 years in the financial services and corporate sectors, with a strong track record in Emerging Asia Equity Markets. She was the founder, managing director and principal fund manager of Corston-Smith Asset Management, an independent asset management company that was an early signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (“UNPRI”), a position she held from 2004 to 2019. Prior to that, Datuk Shireen was the CEO of AIG Investment Corporation (Malaysia).A strong advocate of Corporate Governance best practices and Environment, Social and Governance (“ESG”) activism, Datuk Shireen has served on several Boards and Board Committees in public-listed companies including as Non-Executive Chairman of Bursa Malaysia. She also served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of AMMB Holdings Berhad, HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad, Integrax Berhad, and Encorp Berhad. She was a member of the Economic Action Council, chaired by the Prime Minister as well as a Board Member of the Federal Land Development Authority (“FELDA”).In recognition of her work in the industry, she was named one of the 25 most influential women in the Asia-Pacific region for asset management by Asian Investor, a regional publication, in June 2011. In March 2014, she was honoured by Forbes Asia as one of the 50 Asia's Power Businesswomen 2014.Datuk Shireen holds a Masters of Business Administration from Loyola Marymount University, United States and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, United States.

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4 CPE Hours

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