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15.05.2020

We are pleased to share our latest op-ed titled “From golden parachutes to golden shares” exploring capital injections in private companies by governments worldwide and their consequences on the structure of the global economy. This article was published yesterday by Aspen Institute.

01.05.2020

GOVERN is delighted to release its Flagship Report on Governance of Arab Think Tanks developed in collaboration with KAPSARC and presented by our Managing Director in January at the T20 inception conference held in Riyadh. The report is the first of a kind to provide an overview and analysis of governance frameworks of think tanks across the Arab World. Here

01.05.2020

We are pleased to share our assessment of the reasons and the consequences of the recent corporate governance scandals in the Gulf, including Abraaj, Drake and Scull, Arabtec and most recently, the NMC, on which we have commented in the Financial Times, Bloomberg and other international news outlets. Please feel free to share and comment.

14.04.2020

GOVERN is pleased to share a recent op-ed by David Beatty published today in the Globe and Mail on the importance of strategic planning by corporate boards in the context of the current pandemic. The article is available here

28.02.2020

As the regulators launch an investigation into the conduct of the Emirati and London listed healthcare provider NMC, our Managing Director shares today her views on the corporate governance challenges in the Gulf in the following Bloomberg analysis

28.02.2020

In recent weeks, political debates are entering the spectrum of corporate governance discussions not only with the Nissan and Facebook cases. GOVERN's Senior Advisor Stephen Davis comments on the latest Apple shareholder vote regarding the company's policies in China in today's New York Times article

11.02.2020

Our Managing Director discusses the implications of the changing tax landscape for corporate directors, focusing on the the OECD proposal for a minimum tax rate targeting technology companies. The opinion piece was published in the winter edition of the Ethical Boardroom Magazine

11.12.2019​

Our Managing Director Alissa Amico looks at how governance has evolved in the Middle East region and how foreign investors need to have a more profound understanding of this evolution. This opinion piece was published in the prestigious International Corporate Governance Association Yearbook

30.11.2019​

A new article, discussing governance changes at Amazon and how these may pave way for future changes in the capitalist system was published today by our Managing Director Alissa Amico in the Harvard Business Review Arabia. A translation of the article is available here

13.06.2019​

As the environmental, social and governance investing is growing in its significance worldwide, our Managing Director writes in the Ethical Boardroom Magazine on challenges in ESG investing. The piece called ESG Investing: Truths, Half-Truths and Lies was published earlier this month