Preparing for Your First Directorship

October 29, 2022

ABOUT THE WEBINAR

This course and webinar is designed to help directors embarking on a first board role with key points to consider and prepare for so that they can execute their board responsibilities with confidence and success.  The course is comprised of a presentation in Myanmar that lays out the key learning points, followed by a webinar in English where senior global board professionals will share their deep expertise and answer questions from attendees.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Know the role and responsibilities of boards and how they operate
  • Identify the key functions and committees of a board
  • Recognise how different types of organisations require varying board structures
  • Understand the role of the director and different types of directors
  • Evaluate the skills and attributes required to be an effective director

 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Board directors embarking on their first board role, aspiring board directors, board directors wishing to have a refresher course on board roles, senior management interacting with boards

 

COST

MMK 50,000 for non-members

MMK 40,000 for MIoD members

*Attendees will obtain 0.5 Continuing Directorship Education (CDE) credits by attending this webinar.

 

Date & Time : Saturday, 29th October 2022 (2:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Myanmar Time)
Registration : [Click here]
Brochure : [Click here]
Language : Course Presentation (Myanmar) and Panel Discussion (English)

 

AGENDA

2:30 pm – 2:35 pm Welcome and Introduction
2:35 pm – 3:15 pm Course Presentation

Preparing for Your First Directorship

Thiri Thant Mon, Faculty Member and Executive Director, Myanmar Institute of Directors

3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Panel Discussion

Ms. Turid Elisabeth Solvang, CEO, FutureBoards AS

Dr. Roger M. Barker, Director of Policy and Governance, Institute of Directors

Ms. Mhorag Doig, Head of Alumni Career Centre, London Business School

Moderator: Thiri Thant Mon

4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Discussion, Q & A and Closing Remarks

*Please register by 28th October 2022.

 

FACULTY

Thiri Thant Mon is the Head of ESG for the Fixed Income Division EMEA at Morgan Stanley, a leading global investment bank.  She also serves as Executive Director of the Myanmar Institute of Directors, board member of British Chamber of Commerce Myanmar and trustee for Turquoise Mountain Foundation, a UK charity that focuses on heritage preservation countries such as Afghanistan and Myanmar.  She has held a number of leadership and board roles over her 20-year career as a finance and capital markets professional.

She holds a BA in Economics from William & Mary, an MBA from the London Business School, and a Director Certification Diploma from the Thai Institute of Directors.


SPEAKERS

Dr. Roger M. Barker is Director of Policy and Governance at the Institute of Directors, and a member of the Management Board. He is also Honorary Associate at the Centre for Ethics and Law at University College London. Dr. Barker is the author of numerous books and articles on corporate governance and board effectiveness, including the recent volume: ‘The Law and Governance of Decentralised Business Models: Between Hierarchies and Markets’ (Routledge, 2020). He is a former member of the European Economic and Social Committee and the founder of successful corporate governance advisory company. A former investment banker, Dr. Barker spent almost 15 years in a variety of equity research and senior management roles at UBS and Bank Vontobel, both in the UK and Switzerland. He has a doctorate from Oxford University and taught politics at Merton College, Oxford (2005-2008).


Mhorag Doig joined LBS in late 2019 to grow and develop the Alumni Career Centre. She has varied experience across Asset Management and HR Executive Search, Higher Education, and Entrepreneurship. Prior to relocating back to London in 2019, Mhorag worked in the HR Centre of Expertise for Global Executive Search firm Korn Ferry, based out of their Zurich Office, where she delivered global CHRO searches for a number of global blue-chip clients.  

She is a trained Coach, aligned with the Association for Coaching and is a certified Belbin and MHS Emotional Intelligence diagnostic facilitator. She also coaches and mentors mid-career and leadership professionals across a variety of industries through her own coaching practice careeriosity.co and sits on the Board of the MBA Careers Services for Working Professionals Alliance – an organisation supporting leading Business Schools globally to enhance their effectiveness in working with Executive MBA, Part-Time MBA and Alumni communities.

In her earlier career Mhorag worked in academic research commercialization, postgraduate skills development and cross-industry employer engagement for the business school at the University of Edinburgh. At this time she was also an active member of MBA Careers Service and Employer Alliance, chairing the 2016 European conference bringing together business schools and key MBA employers to share best practice in career management and professional development.

Mhorag completed her Masters in Global Human Resources in 2012. She chose to write her thesis on values based recruitment, conceptualising a new model of recruitment for organisations with strong values-based cultures. This was preceded by MA studies at the University of Edinburgh in Business and French.


Turid Elisabeth Solvang is an international corporate governance expert, working with investors, board directors and top managers, as well as academics, politicians and regulators globally. In 2016, Ms Solvang founded and is CEO of FutureBoards AS, a project-driven company and a global network of experts and practitioners committed to building better boards that supports sustainable value creation.

Ms Solvang is member of Expert Advisory Board at Boards Impact Forum and European Women on Boards, and member of the Advisory Committee of the ESG Exchange. In 2021, she co-founded Women in Finance Charter Norway, inspired by Women in Finance Charter UK.

Ms. Solvang co-founded the Norwegian Institute of Directors in 2009, and she headed the organisation until October 2016. She has also held the position as chair of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations which represents 55,000 board directors from 20 European countries. As board member of ecoDa since 2011, she has contributed to ecoDa’s initiatives in such areas as governance policy, nomination, evaluation, and diversity. As Chair, she represented ecoDa on the board of the Global Network of Director Institutes.

Ms Solvang holds an MSc in General Business from BI Norwegian Business School, and she has held non-executive directorships in the financial and service sectors and membership organizations. Ms Solvang is a seasoned international speaker and writer on corporate governance topics, including women on boards.