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Mr Philip Armstrong
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Philip Armstrong heads the Global Corporate Governance Forum, based in Washington DC, United States. The Forum is a multi-donor trust fund co-founded by the World Bank Group and the OECD to promote global, regional and local initiatives to improve the institutional framework and practices of corporate governance in developing countries and emerging markets. The Forum is located in the International Finance Corporation’s Business Advisory Services Vice Presidency.
Philip is an internationally acknowledged expert on corporate governance and was the principal convener and main editor of the 2002 King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa. He has had a distinguished and varied career in executive and senior management in a number of South Africa’s prominent listed companies, including holding the position of Senior Vice President: Corporate Secretary of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited. Immediately prior to heading the Forum, he was Director: Corporate Governance at a leading South African law firm.
Philip Armstrong has served with distinction on a number of boards of companies, governing bodies of professional institutions, and policy initiatives in South Africa and internationally. He is a former member of the board of governors of the International Corporate Governance Network, member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and a fellow and past President of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Southern Africa. He has been closely involved in the affairs of the Institute of Directors in South Africa, and was instrumental in producing the Commonwealth Guidelines on corporate governance (1999).
Noteworthy, has been his involvement as an expert resource on corporate governance for the NEPAD initiative in Africa. And more recently, in 2006, he was conferred with an honorary doctorate in business administration from the Oxford Brookes University in the UK in recognition of his contributions to corporate governance internationally, with particular reference to developing countries.
Philip works extensively with governments, regulators and policy makers, institutions and organisations, companies and boards in the private and public sectors globally on issues of corporate governance policies, standards, practices and implementation.
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