Mr U K Sinha, Chairman, Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) released the CII Deloitte publication titled ‘Global Trends in Corporate Governance’at the 10th Corporate Governance Summit organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on the overall theme titled ‘Building a Strong Corporate Governance Ecosystem in India’ on 8 December, 2015 at Mumbai.
This paper benchmarks the corporate governance norms across geographies against Indian regulatory requirements and concludes by highlighting the key issues which Boards will need to address in time to come. It highlights some of the important mandates from the world of corporate governance that should continue to make the news and be the subject of debate and speculation. It includes research on important issues including, gender diversity, board evaluation and CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) which are novel with little precedent by bringing global patterns to the foreground and encourage corporate preparedness and precaution.