Projects

Current Projects

Participation in the HOPE Project

The Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa is proud to have been selected by the University of Stellenbosch as one of the projects that constitute the HOPE Project.

The University has decided to align its core activities with selected themes from the international Millennium Development Goals, including the promotion of democracy and human rights.

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Our Services

Our Services

The Centre's services include director development programmes and sponsored research which is undertaken on behalf of clients.

Meet the Team

Bob GarrattProf. Bob Garratt
Chairman

 

 

Daniel Malan

Daniel Malan
Director of the Centre

 

 

Achieng Ojwang

Achieng Ojwang
Snr. Research Fellow

 

 

Cornis van der Lugt

Cornis van der Lugt
Snr. Research Fellow

 

 

Deon Botha

Deon Botha
Snr. Research Fellow

 

 

Lynn McGregor

Lynn McGregor
Snr. Research Fellow

 

 

Thina Siwendu

Thina Siwendu
Snr. Research Fellow

 

 

Victor Prozesky

Victor Prozesky
Snr. Research Fellow

 

 

Anna Yortt

Anna Yortt
Research Manager

 

 

Sunelle Hanekom

Sunelle Hanekom
Administration Officer

News & Events

News & Events

Research Fellow's paper published by The Conference Board

A research paper by Cornis van der Lugt, Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa and Geneva-based consultant was published this week as a Director Note by The Conference Board, a global network of corporate executives from over 1200 companies world-wide. Entitled 'The Sustainability Business Case: A Model for Incorporating Financial Value Drivers', the Director Note is available online at: http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2516. It was co-written by Van der Lugt and Marc Bertoneche, Visiting Professor in Finance at Harvard Business School. The paper presents a Green Business Case Model that sets out the link between environmental actions and core financial value drivers that are of special interest to investors and other providers of financial capital. A longer version of the paper has also been published as Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No 13-072, available online at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2221455.

 

Carrots and Sticks: Sustainability reporting policies worldwide - today's best practice, tomorrow's trends

Friday, 24 May 2013: The third edition of Carrots and Sticks: Sustainability reporting policies worldwide - today's best practice, tomorrow's trends has just been launched at the Global Reporting Initiative's conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The first edition of Carrots and Sticks covered developments in 19 countries, and the second in 32 countries. This third edition covers 45 countries and regions. The Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa at the University of Stellenbosch Business School is one of the four core project partners of this report along with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and KPMG Climate Change & Sustainability Services. The increasing faith that many governments have in the benefits of transparency practices is demonstrated in this publication by a matrix and inventory of 180 initiatives from 45 countries and regions.

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Corporate Disclosure: IIRC and GRI Compared

An updated Comparative Table on the core requirements of the Integrated Reporting Framework (IR1 - Consultation Draft) and the G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines is now available, based on the final version of the G4 launched by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) on 22 May 2013. Using the structure of the IR1 as point of departure, the table lists the most relevant requirements of G4 - Part 1 and Part 2 - next to each core requirement of the IR1 Consultation Draft that was published by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in April 2013. The comparative table is of particular interest to South African corporations preparing their annual sustainability and integrated reports as required by the JSE.

People

People

The Centre is chaired by Prof Bob Garratt, professor extraordinaire in Corporate Governance at the USB and it is headed by Daniel Malan, senior lecturer in Ethics and Governance at the USB.

Resources

Find out more about the Centre's Corporate Governance Rating Matrix and see discussion papers on the Centre's colloquia.

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