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SUSTAINABILITY IS A MORAL AND ECONOMIC IMPERATIVE OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Mervyn King will define the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainability. He will speak about measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainability of economic growth, as it occurs in the real world, may be judged.

Topics to be discussed include:

• Governance is about quality, not quantity
• Strategy involves short- and long-term planning
• Strategy today involves four capital aspects – financial, environmental, social and human
• We are transient caretakers with a moral duty
• Companies have to consider how their businesses impact on land, air and water
• If not, the business will not be sustainable and reputation (brand) can be destroyed

About your presenter

Mervyn King consults and advises on corporate legal issues. He is recognised internationally as an expert on corporate governance and sustainability. He sits as an arbitrator and as a mediator. He is a founding member of the Arbitration Foundation of Southern Africa and for some eight years was the South African judge at the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris. He has acted as an Inspector of Companies and a Commissioner of Inquiries into the affairs of companies. He has chaired many meetings for the compromise of creditors of companies and the rearrangement of shareholders’ interests. He has spoken at conferences and lectured on corporate issues in 38 countries. He is a regular speaker on radio and television talk shows and ran his own television series, “King on Governance”.