BEI organises Corporate Governance Week from Jan 13

Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) is organising `Corporate Governance Week 2008' to ensure transparency and accountability in the private sector, especially in the country's banks and NGOs.
`Without practicing Corporate Governance, Bangladesh will fail to achieve sustainable development', Farooq Sobhan, president of BEI, said yesterday.
The programme aims to create awareness and propose new strategies on governance within the banking and NGO sectors, focusing on the roles of senior management and top level officials, Farooq Sobhan added.
`Corporate Governance Week 2008' will consist of a range of seminars in Dhaka from January 13 to January 17. Among the topics to be covered are corporate regulations, the role of honorary members on management boards and the level of senior management's accountability, he said..
BEI was established in October 2002 to advocate policy for the private sector in Bangladesh. Lopa Rahman, project director of BEI, and Yawer Sayeed, trustee member of BEI, were also present at the programme.
Sayeed said the country needs to prepare new codes of conduct for the corporate sector.