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Interview with Ansie Ramalho -Overcoming leadership challenges

In this conversation, Dr Claudelle and Ansie Ramalho explore modern-day leadership challenges and how Ansie has dealt with some of the challenges she has had to face. Ansie gives some insight into the challenges she faced in joining the Board of KMPG (SA) at the time when the firm was steeped in a scandal in South Africa. She also gives some advice to emerging leaders which are worth embracing.

Ansie Ramalho is a lawyer by training and considered a leading authority on corporate governance, with both deep and broad theoretical and applied knowledge on the topic.

Ansie serves as a professional non-executive director. In addition, she regularly writes and facilitates training on corporate governance and company law.

Ansie was the appointed King IV Project Lead with responsibility for the successful finalisation of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa and she now chairs the King Committee.

Her prior positions include having been the Chief Executive of the IoDSA from 2010 to 2014. 

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