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.