POSTGRADUATE TASTER: A governance perspective on sustainability and culture

Event Details

Free


Date and Time

Fri, 4 June 2021

13:00 - 14:00


Location

Online via Zoom

Event Details

Free


Date and Time

Fri, 4 June 2021

13:00 - 14:00


Location

Online via Zoom

Event details
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''Sustainability', 'CSR', 'ESG', 'Triple Bottom Line' and 'Enlightened Shareholder Value' present an alphabet soup of important standards, expectations and regulations that are shaping the governance of many organisations, including banks. Join Níall Fitzgerald, non-executive and Head of Ethics and Governance in Chartered Accountants Ireland, as he shares insights to what these mean for banking, how boards and governance frameworks are impacted and how culture is a key driver of embedding sustainability across the organisation.

This is a programme taster event for the Level 9 Professional Diploma in Banking awarded by UCD.


The event will be held over Zoom. Please ensure you have access to Zoom in advance of the event taking place. Zoom is available on all PCs, laptops, tablets and Apple or Android devices. The link to join the event will be emailed to registered members on the day of the event

The registration for the event will close once we reach capacity or at 9am the day of the event. 

0.5 CPD hours for;

  • Professional Banker

  • Chartered Banker

  • Certified Bank Director

  • Accredited Funds Professional

  • LCOI

  • FCOI (Compliance)

  • FCOI (Ethics)

Níall Fitzgerald

Head of Ethics and Governance, Chartered Accountants Ireland

Níall leads the delivery of strategic objectives on business ethics and governance across operations, including policy, member support and resources, and engagement with regulators, standard setters and other stakeholders. Níall is a member of the Institute’s Sustainability Expert Working Party and is passionate about internal implementation of sustainability initiatives and applying sustainability reporting frameworks. His non-executive experience includes being a trustee of an occupational pension scheme, non-executive member of a governance and risk committee for an Irish charity and chairing a panel of judges for the Good Governance Awards in Ireland. Níall is the author of a number of expert guides and articles on ethics, organisational culture and corporate governance, as well as having produced a number of compliance toolkits for the audit and accounting profession. Níall lectures on governance, risk, ethics and compliance for IOB and is module co-ordinator for Bank Governance and Regulation on the Professional Diploma in Banking programme.

Níall Fitzgerald