Last June, the Egyptian
Institute of Directors ( EIoD) in collaboration with
the UNCTAD announced the inauguration of the first
Annual Conference on Transparency and Disclosure
that was held at the Mena House Oberai Hotel, Cairo,
Egypt, under the auspices of H.E Dr. Mahmoud
Mohieldin, the Egyptian Minister of Investment.
This year, the conference focused on “ Investment
and Good practices in Corporate Governance” and over
two days many topics have been discussed such as,
the international practices in corporate governance
disclosure, the status of corporate governance
disclosure in the MENA region, the role of corporate
governance disclosure in attracting international
investments, and in addition, the conference
highlighted the disclosure of corporate governance
practices in the financial institutions.
On the first day of the conference, H.E Dr. Mahmoud
Mohieldin, the Egyptian Minister of Investment
awarded graduation certificates to the participants
of the first and second Intakes of the Board
Development Series program ( BDS). It is worth
mentioning that the BDS program is provided by the
EIoD.
During the speech of H.E the minister of investment
in the conference, he mentioned that Egypt was the
first Arab country in the region that issued codes
of corporate governance specially for the state
owned enterprises, depending on the OECD principles
of corporate governance. He also mentioned that the
committee responsible for drafting the freedom of
information law in Egypt, in which the ministry of
investment is presented, is currently finalizing the
draft that is to be discussed in the next
parliamentary round.
Minister's
Speech
During the second day of the conference, the EIoD &
IFC awarded the winners in the competition of best
annual report and website.
The winners of the Competition
The attendees of the conference were business
leaders, government officials and corporate
governance experts, senior level managers and board
members of prestigious companies from across the
world, press agencies.
Photos
of the conference
Sponsors
To Access all the voice recordings of the Conference
visit the following link:
http://www.hawkama.net/event.asp?id=17&id1=2
