The conference will target company chairpersons, CEOs, financial officers, directors, managers, entrepreneurs, founders and other interested business professionals within the public and private sectors.

They will form the participating forum to discuss topical issues such as corruption, mismanagement and company fraud.

Event co-organiser Tonata Shiimi told a press conference in Windhoek yesterday that the major objective of the conference was to engage stakeholders in national debate about what constitutes good corporate governance, and also to promote good corporate governance in both sectors.

The conference comes at opportune time - President Hifikepunye Pohamba on Monday symbolically blew the whistle on corruption when launching the zero-tolerance campaign.

Pohamba will deliver the keynote address at the conference, while international corporate-governance kingpin Phillip Armstrong will be among the main speakers.

Armstrong heads the Global Corporate Governance Forum, based in Washington DC, United States, and is also the main editor of the 2002 King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa.

He is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network and has served on a number of boards of companies and governing bodies of professional institutions and policy initiatives in South Africa and internationally.

He is a member of the European Corporate Governance Institute.

Other notable speakers will be Professor Alfred Chanda, who is the President of Transparency International Zambia, and local academic and social commentator Dr Joseph Diescho.

Various topics, including affirmative action, BEE, Vision 2030 and the role of the media, will be discussed in interactive sessions during panel discussions to be held after presentations.

The Executive Director of the Namibia Institute for Democracy, Theunis Keulder, has welcomed the initiative, saying the conference came at the right time and was part of a greater campaign on dealing with issues of corruption and corporate governance.

He said these matters should be taken to grassroots and training levels.

The conference, to be held under the theme 'Anti-corruption, good governance in public, private and NGO's in Namibia', is being jointly organised by the Centre for Training and Projects Development and A-Z Events Management Company.

At the end of the conference, the three best-managed companies or institutions from the many evaluated will be selected for accolades.

Some 100 delegates are expected to attend the conference.

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