Global Chamber Accra Monthly Meet-up

Global Chamber Accra Monthly Meet-up:

Effective Risk Governance: Strategies for a Resilient Future

• Tuesday November 25th at 2pm Accra / 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm London / 3pm CET / 6pm Dubai / 7:30pm Mumbai / 10pm Singapore / 11pm Seoul + Tokyo
• Wednesday, November 26th at 1am Sydney 

In today's volatile digital landscape, cybersecurity failures don't just compromise data; they destroy shareholder value, trigger regulatory penalties, and end businesses. Despite the chaos following cybersecurity incidents, most executives lack the governance frameworks needed to confidently oversee these existential risks. Risk governance goes beyond traditional risk management. It weaves together oversight, accountability, and strategic decision-making into the fabric of corporate leadership. Successfully implemented risk governance principles ensure your organization stays ahead of threats instead of just reacting to them.

 

Risk governance refers to the institutions, rules, conventions, processes, and mechanisms by which decisions about risks are taken and implemented. It analyses and formulates risk management strategies to avoid and/or reduce the human and economic costs caused by disasters. Risk governance goes beyond traditional risk analysis to include the involvement and participation of various stakeholders as well as considerations of the broader legal, political, economic, and social contexts in which a risk is evaluated and managed.

 

Key risk areas:  

• Revenue  

• Resilience

• Regulations

• Reputation"

 

Governance is the set act or process of oversight over an entity and includes the rules, regulations, laws, and more that manage an organized group. Typically, companies and other entities use governance practices to make smart decisions and manage resources through collaboration with the higher levels of an organization. Risk governance takes management and oversight a step further by placing additional focus on security risks and legal defensibility. Cybersecurity risk and business risk are placed hand in hand through risk governance, outlining strategic frameworks that inform organizational practices and ability to identify, assess, and manage risks in alignment with their business goals. Going beyond traditional risk management, risk governance embeds oversight, accountability, and decision-making into the fabric of a company, from the boardroom to the operational teams.

 

Speaker:

 

 

Keyaan Williams - Managing Director, CLASS-LLC.

Keyaan J Williams is a risk governance leader who is known globally for the enterprise risk, cybersecurity, data privacy, and AI programs that he has created and deployed for global organizations in various industries. In addition to leadership of a management consulting firm, he actively serves as a board director and advisor for commercial and non-profit organizations. He has also been recognized for his work as a regular keynote speaker, an occasional stand-up comic, and a published author. You can find his thoughts about governance of enterprise cybersecurity and technology risk published in books, professional journals, and on LinkedIn.

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