MeloD Corporate Director Certified Program

What is Corporate Governance?

How do you ensure that a company runs smoothly? How do you ensure your company’s
performance is in line with what regulators want? The simple answer is corporate governance.

The system you have to run your company should minimize risk and ensure higher returns for
shareholders or investors. Your operations should be effective and efficient. That's the reason for
corporate governance: to oil the engine of trust among stakeholders across your company.

Some countries maintain an excellent corporate governance framework. The result? Superior
risk/return profiles when compared with countries with weaker frameworks, other things being
relatively equal.

Investors generally prefer equity markets that operate on secure corporate governance. Serious
investors prefer to anticipate financial tsunamis and try to avoid them. Markets make investors
vulnerable when they do little to protect their interests.

Corporate Governance is:

“the system by which companies are directed and controlled.” - Adrian Cadbury

Why Corporate Governance?

Good corporate governance is necessary to achieve the following goals:

 Lower corporate risk for your company

 Instill confidence in shareholders that their investment is secure

 Enable your company to access more funds

 Make your executive team more proactive and effective

 Improve information flows and enhance decision-making

 It will improve your company’s overall efficiency

 Accelerate company performance and growth

Program Objectives
Do you seek the critical tools that will serve your new and veteran board members and executives
well in the emerging company climate? That’s precisely what MEIoD Corporate Director’s
Certification Program in association with the IFC guarantees.
Strategy by itself is never enough. You need a composite team to ensure that every detail is in
place and goes according to plan. The Institute of Finance Corporation – Member of the World
Bank Group, has designed the Board of Directors Program to help your board improve your
company. This program places a high premium on long-term planning and future-focused
corporate practices.

What new insights will your board and management team learn? You’ll learn modern tools and
practices that’ll foster a culture of sound corporate governance throughout your company.

Our program also provides tested structures and strategies you can use in your company to remain
resilient despite challenges.

The program does more than weigh down participants with theory after theory. Our approach is to
explore practical tools and practices that keep your operations running smoothly.

We just don’t teach either. Interaction is a key component of our curriculum in order to encourage
participant contribution.

Targeted Participants
Who is the MEIoD Corporate Director’s Certification Program for? Ideal candidates include board
members, board chairs, corporate directors, and other top-tier executives in the Middle East and
North Africa region. This program is suitable for your people if their corporate goals include:

 profitable sustainability,

 a professional approach to performance issues,

 expansion,

 succession, and

 access to capital.

The best part is that you’ll learn to apply the viable Corporate Governance framework and best
practices developed by the IFC.

Why Should Your Board Take The MEIoD Corporate Director’s

Certification Program?
There are various reasons why this program is top-rated among Corporate Governance experts
and board members across many companies:

1. It's highly credible and comes from a credible company – the International Finance
Corporation (IFC).
 2. It’s tailored to companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, so it takes
cognizance of the nuances of doing company in the region.

3. Participating in and completing this program leads to a high-value certification. Besides, it

provides a springboard to new and exciting board opportunities for participants. MEIoD will
nominate you to put your training to good practical use.

4. More than 1,500 have participated in the program and are currently enjoying resounding
success.

Program Structure
The four-part program structure consists of 22 modules and accompanying case studies.

The duration of the program is a total of 12 non-consecutive days via virtual live online sessions.

The program is in English.

IFC maintains a Corporate Governance Methodology forms the fundamentals of the program. Your
executives learn all they need for sound corporate governance processes and structures in your
company.

 Commitment to Good Corporate Governance

Your board needs to understand the art of focusing on effective structures and processes
that will ensure good corporate governance outcomes It ultimately culminates in how the
board takes significant steps to build company culture.

 Board Structure and Functioning

It is necessary to foster a competent, effective, and resilient board in your company? We'll
also touch on key essentials, including who should be on your board, the structure of the
board, and the work procedures.

 Management Control

Your board needs to also achieve comprehensive management control, while creating an
environment with excellent internal control, risk management, and trustworthy financials.

 Disclosure and Transparency

Engaging with stakeholders, including shareholders and regulators in a timely, accurate,

relevant, complete, and actionable way is essential in business.

A board should be able to identify stakeholders expectations and how they impact company
strategy.

 Shareholder Practices
 Protecting all levels of shareholders from insider abuse and treating them equitably.

 Family Governance

If it’s a family company, it’s necessary to develop the appropriate mechanisms to regulate
family involvement in the company and deal with other family matters decisively.

Training Methodology
The MEIoD Corporate Director’s Certification Program in association with the IFC features great
content. But, content is nothing without delivery. We’re bringing on board expert instructors to
cover the full scope of governance issues in company.

The instructors will deliver the course in an engaging way that encourages participant interaction
and peer discussions. A great deal of learning will result from this.

The course content will be available in these various formats that participants will find interesting:

 presentations

 articles, papers, and other background materials

 case studies, to drive discussions

To be clear, our instructors will teach the 22 modules and case studies of the program in English
over 12 non-consecutive days via virtual live sessions.

Corporate Directors Certified Program Outline

Part I – Board Basic

 Rationale for good Corporate Governance

 The Effective Board – roles and authorities, duties, and liabilities

 The Board Composition, structure, and need for independent directors

 Executive and non-executive evaluation and remuneration

 Working procedures of the Board and its Committees

Part II Board Specifics – Practical Tools

 The role of the Board in Setting Strategy

 Choosing and evaluating the CEO

 A guide to Succession Planning

 What every director needs to know about Accounting and Finance

Part III Board Specifics – Disclosure and Transparency
 The board’s role in information disclosure and transparency

 The board and risk management

 Establishing internal audit and control procedures

 The board’s audit committee

 How to interact with the external auditor

Part IV Board Specifics – Shareholder Rights

 Preparing for and conducting the annual general meeting

 The board’s role in protecting shareholder rights

 Related party transaction & insider trading

 Managing corporate conflicts

 The role of the board in setting the company’s dividend policy

Further Information
Thank you for reading through this program brochure. Would you like to take the leap with the IFC-
backed Middle East Institute of Directors program? You can request more information or register
right away if you contact us now.

Maali Khader

Email: Maali@MEIoD.org

Phone: +971 4 401 8506

Dubai, UAE