Our speakers;

Ann Francke OBE

Ann Francke is Chief Executive of the Chartered Management Institute, the UK’s leading professional body for management and leadership with an international member community of over 230,000. She started her career at Procter & Gamble and has held senior executive positions at Mars, Boots, Yell and BSI.

Ann is an expert in Management and Leadership in the workplace, and speaks frequently in the media; she is a regular columnist for The London Times. In 2020 she was awarded an OBE for services to Workplace Equality. She authored ‘Create a Gender-balanced Workplace,’ and the ‘Financial Times Guide to Management’. In 2023, she was awarded the inaugural Memcom Outstanding Contribution Award, for her work in championing the membership sector.

Professor Irene-marié Esser

Professor Irene-marié Esser is Professor of Corporate Law and Governance at the University of Glasgow and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She serves as a Senior Advisor at the IoD’s Centre of Corporate Governance, and was the author and senior advisor to the IoD Commission on the Effectiveness of Non-Executive Directors.

Her international expertise is significant: she is an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and a Visiting Professor at the National Law University Jodhpur, India. She was also an External Consultant to the King IV and V Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa. She is a board member at the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa and on the editorial board of the European Business Law Review.

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