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Advocacy and Initiatives

The Centre focuses on advocacy to influence the practice of corporate governance and sustainability. The Centre provides a platform for discussion, debate, and the sharing of ideas on current and emerging trends in corporate governance and sustainable practices. The advocacy initiatives include:

  • Debates and Workshops: Organizing forums to engage the public on ethics, governance, and responsible business practices.
  • Leaderspeak Series: Hosting sessions where leaders share insights on governance and sustainability topics.
  • Engagement with Stakeholders: Collaborating with government bodies, financial institutions, and industry leaders to promote best practices in corporate governance

Category

Initiative

Description / Notes

Advocacy Efforts

Member of IIRC Academic Network Oversight Body

Represents academic oversight in global sustainability reporting.

Policy Engagement

Collaboration with Ministry of Corporate Affairs (via National Foundation for Corporate Governance)

Accredited as a National Centre of Excellence, contributing to governance policy in India.

Collaborations

Partnerships with IICA, CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, IFC, OECD, and other global bodies

Promotes corporate governance and sustainability dialogue regionally and internationally.

Leaderspeak Series

Speaker/ Collaborators: Dr Villoo Morawala Patell, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Avesthagen Ltd; Ms Shruti Shibulal, Executive Vice Chairperson, Tamara Leisure Experiences Pvt Ltd and Ms Sunitha Viswanathan, Partner, Kae Capital

Date: 9th October 2025
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr Rishabh Shroff, Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and Mr N Krishnan, Principal Consultant – Family Business, Sadashiva Consulting Services.

Date: 18th March 2025
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr N S Vishwanathan, Chairman, Axis Bank, Mr Bhaskar Bhat, Former MD, The Titan Company and Mr S S Mundra, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Date: 10th September 2024
Speaker/ Collaborators: Prof S Sadagopan, Former Director, IIIT Bangalore; Dr Gopichand Katragadda, Founder & CEO, Myelin Foundry and Mr Sameer Dhanrajani, CEO & Co-Founder, AIQRATE

Date: 9th May 2024
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr C K Venkataraman, Managing Director, The Titan Company; Mr T V Narendran, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Steel Ltd; Mr Ajay Nanavati, Former Managing Director, 3M India & Former Chairman, Syndicate Bank; Mr Sundararaman Ramamurthy, Managing Director & CEO, BSE India; Mr Suresh Narayanan, Chairman & Managing Director, Nestle India Ltd; Mr Dinesh Kumar Khara, Chairman, State Bank of India; Mr Soumitra Bhattacharya, Chairman, Bosch Ltd; Mr Krishnakumar Natarajan, Managing Partner, Mela Ventures; Mr Suresh Senapaty, Former CFO, Wipro Ltd.

Date: 2nd September 2023
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr Narayan P S, Global Head-ESG, Wipro Ltd; Ms Madhura Mitra, Director-Climate Change & Sustainability, PwC India; Mr Rajesh Ayapilla, Director – Sustainability & CSR, Coca Cola India; Mr Alok Kumar, Managing Director & Head, Global Analytical Services, Moody’s RMS

Date: 13th July 2023
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr C K Venkataraman, Managing Director, Titan Company Ltd; Prof Lawrence Loh, Director – CGS, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore and Mr Thomas Thomas, CEO, ASEAN CSR Network

Date: 06th March 2023
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr Sundararaman Ramamurthy, Managing Director & CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange; Mr J N Gupta, Managing Director, Stakeholders Empowerment Services; Dr Ashok Haldia, Past Secretary, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Date: 28 February 2023
Speaker/ Collaborators: Dr Gulshan Rai, Chief Information Security Officer, Prime Minister’s office, Government of India; Mr K M Reddy, Chief Information Security Officer, Union Bank of India; Mr Sujith Babu, Cyber Leader – India & SAARC, Cisco Systems and Mr Ajit Menon, Chief Information Security Officer, Tata Consultancy Services

Date: 17th November 2022
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr Arun Maira, Former Member, Planning Commission of India & Former Chairman, Boston Consulting Group; Mr Krishnakumar Natarajan, Managing Partner, Mela Ventures; Mr Shriram Subramaniam, Founder & Managing Director, InGovern Research Services.

Date: 11 August 2022
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr M Damodaran, Chairperson, Excellence Enablers Pvt Ltd; Dr Omkar Goswami, Founder & Chairperson, CERG Advisory Pvt Ltd; Ms Padmaja Chunduru, MD & CEO, NSDL Moderator : Mr Vikaram Chandra, Founder, Editorji Technologies

Date: 19 April 2022
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners; Mr J N Gupta, Managing Director, Stakeholders Empowerment Services; Mr Richard Rekhy, Board Member, KPMG Dubai & Former CEO, KPMG India; Moderator : Mr Ajay Nanavati, Former Chairman, Syndicate Bank & Former Managing Director, 3M India Ltd

Date: 21 January 2022
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, Past President, AIMA & Chairman, The Hero Enterprise, Mr Harshpati Singhania, Vice Chairman & MD, J K Paper Limited; Prof S Raghunath, Professor – Strategy, IIM, Bangalore; Mr D Shivakumar, Group Executive President, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Management Corporation; Mr Arun Duggal, Former CEO of Bank of America in India; Prof Padmini Srinivasan, Chairperson, CCGC, IIMB Ms Rekha Sethi, Director General, AIMA

Date: 24 November 2021
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr Suresh Narayanan; Chairman & MD, Nestle India Ltd; Ms Rekha Menon, Chairperson & Sr MD, Accenture in India; Mr C K Venkataraman, Managing Director, The Titan Company; Mr Rishikesha Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore Prof Padmini Srinivasan, Chairperson, CCGC, IIMB

Date: 1st October 2021
Speaker/ Collaborators: Ms Corien Vermaak, Cyber Security Specialist, CISCO, Sydney Prof. S Raghunath, Chairperson – CCGC,IIMB Corporate Reporting Dialogue : Future of Corporate Transparency & Disclosures

Date: 15 March 2021

Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr R Mukundan, Managing Director & CEO, Tata Chemicals Ltd Mr G Mahalingam, Whole Time Director of SEBI; Mr Amit Bajoria, Sr Vice President – Finance & Global Controller, Wipro Ltd ; Mr Srinivasa Rangan, Executive Director, HDFC Ltd

Date: 26 August 2021
Speaker/ Collaborators:Mr. Tobby Simon; Founder & President, Synergia Foundation; Commissioner - Global Commission on Internet Governance and Cyber Security; Ms Corien Vermaak, Cyber Security Specialist, CISCO, Sydney; Prof. S Raghunath, Chairperson – CCGC,IIMB

Date: 25 January 2021
Speaker/ Collaborators:Mr. N. S. Vishwanathan, Former Deputy Governor, RBI; Mr. T. N. Manoharan, Chairman, Canara Bank; Mr. M. K. Sharma; Chairman, Diageo India and Former Chairman, ICICI Bank; Mr. Mahalingam, Wholetime Member, SEBI
Moderator: Mr. Suresh Senapaty, Chairman, Honeywell Automation

Date: 18 November 2020
Speaker/ Collaborators:Mr Chuck Robbins, Chairman & CEO, CISCO

Date: 1st October 2020
Speaker/ Collaborators:Mr. Anil Menon, Senior Advisor to the Chairman, World Economic Forum, Geneva; Mr. Daniel Martinez-Valle; CEO, Orbia, Mexico; Mr.Gal Gnainsky Chief Security Officer, Royal Phillips Co., Netherlands.

Date: 23 June 2020
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr. Ajay Vipin Nanavati, Former Chairman, Syndicate Bank & Former MD,3M; Mr. G. Narayanan, Former Chairman, Vijaya Bank; Mr. R.A. Sankara Narayanan, Former CEO & MD, Canara Bank

Date: 16 June 2020
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, Chairman, Hero Enterprise, Mr. R. Seshasayee, Executive Vice Chairman, Hinduja Group, Mr. Suresh Narayanan, Chairman & Managing Director, Nestle India Ltd

Date: 27 May 2020
Speaker/ Collaborators: Dr. S.S. Bhalla - Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, Mr. B.K. Bhattacharya - Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka, & Prof. Narendra Pani, - Resident editor of Economic Times and Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies.

Number of Attendees: 230

Date: 4 July 2018
Speaker/ Collaborators: Mr.G.N. Bajpai, former Chairman of SEBI, as well as former Chairman of LIC

Number of Attendees: 200

Date: 31 July 2017
Speaker/ Collaborators:Panelists included Dr. Jeremy Nicholls / Mr.Santhosh Jayaram-KPMG/ Mr.Ambuja Sandeep Srivastava/ Mr.P.S. Narayan Wipro and moderated by Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan & Professor. P.D. Jose

Number of Attendees: 210

Date: 24 August 2017
Speaker/ Collaborators: Panelist included Dr.Y.V.Reddy-RBI/ Mr.Leeladhar RBI/ Mr.Bipul Bhattacharya/ Professor Charan Singh and moderated by Rohini Nilekini

Number of Attendees: 200

Date: 19 December 2017
Speaker/ Collaborators:Dr. V.R. Narasimhan, Chief Regulator, National Stock Exchange of India

Number of Attendees: 100

Date: 09 June 2017
Speaker/ Collaborators: General Bikram Singh, Dr. H.R. Nagendra, President, S-Vyasa and V.K. Viswanathan, Chairman Bosch Ltd and Allen C.A. Pereira, Banker Extraordinaire

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Number of Attendees: 170

Date: 03 August 2016
Speaker/ Collaborators:Dr. Mukund Rajan – Custodian and Chief Ethics Officer Tata Brand

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Number of Attendees: 220

Date: 15 December 2015
Speaker/ Collaborators:Sri Sri Ravishankar, humanitarian and spiritual leader; Mr. Pradip Baijal, IAS officer of the 1966 batch, Madhya Pradesh Cadre; Mr. Chiranjiv Singh, former Ambassador of India to UNESCO in Paris

Number of Attendees: 200

Date: 12 August 2015
Speaker/ Collaborators: Dr. D Subbarao, former Governor, RBI; C Bhave, former Chairman, SEBI; R Dubey, former CMD, Canara Bank, Sharad Sharma, Managing Director, State Bank of Mysore; Anchored by Dr. Charan Singh, RBI Chair Professor of Economics, IIM Bangalore

Number of Attendees: 210

Date: 20 October 2015

Outreach (external presentations/seminars) Advocacy

1

Presentation at the American Chamber of Commerce- “CSR-Reaching your Impact -The Scorecard so far”

December 2018

2

Moderated at a panel discussion-Institute of Internal Auditors Annual Conference-Internal Audit and Ethics-Are we on the right track?

March 2018

3

Presentation made at the launch of the Human Rights (Praxis) Primer in Delhi

April 2017

4

Presentation at IIMB-Transforming Corporate Governance through Digital Technology

May 2017

5

Presentation at NHRC-“Role of Media in Human Rights”

June 2017

6

Presentation at Cividep Seminar- “Binding Treaties and Human Rights”

November 2017

7

Participation in a Ministry/UNCTAD Conference on “Empowering customers in new Markets”

October 2017

8

Presentation at a CSR Workshop - Seshadipuram Institute of Management

October 2017