THE GENEALOGY OF HAWKAMAH
1. You were involved with Hawkamah from the
very beginning. It has been quite a journey, but
could you please take us through the early days
– why and how was the Institute set up?
The institute was started to respond to an articulated
regional need to address corporate governance in
2. Could please describe the initial governance
landscape in the Middle East and North Africa?
What were the early challenges? And how did
Hawkamah address those challenges?
associations and chambers of commerce and also having
discussions with regulators on corporate governance
and discovered a severe mismatch in understanding of
corporate governance between the regulators and the
private sector who would be directly impacted with
of regional dialogues to bring together various
critical review of the corporate governance principles in
and drive discussions on corporate governance concerns
has had a role in trying to bridge the understanding on
corporate governance but also facilitating discussions
on appropriate regional approaches on corporate
as the regional platform we became more focused on
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