KPMG in India’s Board Leadership Center (BLC) organised a Women Independent Directors’ Roundtable on 9 January 2020 in Gurugram and on 14 January 2020 in Mumbai.
The roundtable included presentations by Ritesh Tiwari, Partner and Leader, KPMG Board Leadership Center (India); Akhilesh Tuteja, Partner and Head of Risk Consulting, KPMG in India; Hiroo Mirchandani, Independent Director, on multiple company boards and a dialogue between Anjali Bansal, Founder, Avaana Capital and Independent Director on multiple company boards and Venkataramanan Vishwanath, Chartered Accountant.
The event covered topics such as:
- How to break the proverbial ‘glass ceiling’ and have more women Independent Directors in the boardroom?
- Current corporate governance landscape for Independent Directors
- Independent Director: a digital native?
- Conflict management and crisis prevention.