Gillian Lees to address at CIMA Technical Symposium.

Gillian Lees will deliver the keynote address on 'Enterprise Governance - Restoring Boardroom Leadership' at the CIMA Technical Symposium 2009 to be held at Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel on December 3.

Gillian has over a decade of experience in working on corporate governance issue and was heavily involved in the IFAC/CIMA Enterprise Governance project.

She played an instrumental role in developing the CIMA Strategic Scorecard which promotes boards focusing on both aspects of conformance and performance.

She has written articles in numerous publications and has presented widely on enterprise governance and the scorecard.

She is currently developing CIMA's thinking on how organisational boards can engage in strategy more effectively, particularly in the context of a downturn.

The recent turbulent conditions in the world's economic and financial markets have thrown the spotlight on corporate governance again. While there are many contributory factors to the crisis, one key theme that surface time and time again is the ability of boards or equivalent governing bodies of organisations to oversee strategy and risk effectively.