The Corporate Governance Unit (COACG) of the International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, in association with the Mona School of Business, The PSOJ and Jamaica Stock Exchange will host a workshop in Jamaica on March 30-31, 2012 for participants from Jamaica and other Caribbean countries.
This Risk Governance Program is intended to provide the participating directors with the tools needed for effective oversight of the risk-taking in their firms. It seeks to enhance the risk oversight structures, processes and competence of boards. The program will consist of a series of training workshops addressing risk governance in emerging markets.
The details of the course are as follows:
Programme: The workshop will involve highly interactive sessions drawing heavily on the experiences of the participants and on “real life” events from which risk governance lessons can be drawn. It takes a non-quantitative approach focusing on the oversight role to be taken by a director. The sessions will focus on two main areas: (i) how a board can build firm value by astute risk taking; and (ii) how behavioural and organizational dysfunctions can distort a board’s decisions on risk taking. The sessions are tailored for current and potential corporate directors.
Duration: 1-1/2 days.
Faculty: Facilitators are leading international academics and practitioners, including Professor Aswath Damodaran,Professor of Finance at Stern School of Business, New York University, who is ranked by ‘Business Week’ amongst the top 12 professors in the USA and Professor Oliviero Roggi, Visiting Associate Professor of Finance NYU and Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Florence as well as leading local and regional risk experts.
Target Participants:
– Directors of Financial and non-financial institutions;
– Risk management executives;
– CEOs, CFOs, corporate Secretaries; senior accountants, senior finance officers, senior managers and senior auditors, and other senior executives with relevant professional backgrounds, who are positioned to form the pool of future directors; and
– Regulators from central banks, securities commissions, stock exchanges, and other supervisory authorities
Date: March 30-31, 2012
Venue: Terra Nova All Suites Hotel, Kingston Jamaica
Fee: US$400
