The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) in association with National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) organised conference on ‘Ethics and Corporate Governance’ on December 11, 2013 in Kolkata, which was inaugurated by Anand Sinha, deputy governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
The keynote speaker was Prof. Dipankar Gupta, Retd Prof JNU and the guest of honour was Ashish kumar Chauhan, MD and CEO, BSE ltd. The session was also addressed by Sandip Ghose director, NISM and CS SN Ananthasubramanian, president, the ICSI.
The area of corporate governance has witnessed a structural evolution, in terms of board composition and reporting. In terms of impact, governance is closely intertwined with ethics, as the tone at the top is the major influence on the culture of an organisation. This was the thinking behind the theme of the conference. The conference was a confluence of thoughts between practitioners, academicians and regulators to identify critical governance issues in the corporate sector.
In tune with the conference theme, the structure of the conference series was as under regulatory perspective, practitioners perspective and academicians perspective. The conference was addressed by various speakers like PK Choudhary, chairman, ICRA; Prof. RP Banerjee, director, EIIlM, Arun Kaul, chairman and MD, UCO Bank; BB Chatterjee, secretary and executive VP, ITC ltd; Hemant Kanoria, chairman and MD, SREI Infrastructure Finance ltd.; Prashant Saran, Whole Time Member, SEBI; Madhav Reddy, MD and CEO, Calcutta Stock Exchange; Dr. Deepali Pant Joshi, executive director, RBI and CS MS Sahoo, secretary, ICSI.