• Overview
• Objectives
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• Learning Experience
• Faculty
• Dates & Fees

Today’s supervisory boards have to contend with a host of new pressures, challenges and risks. Held ever more accountable for their organisation’s performance and vitality, they must also set its strategic direction, often across diverse product markets and geographies, while evaluating the performance of the CEO and senior executives, as well as monitoring the firm’s risk profile.

The INSEAD International Directors Programme is a unique educational experience that aims to develop more effective directors. Set within an international context, the programme is aimed at current directors who bring specific competences and credibility to the boards on which they serve and at senior executives and professionals preparing themselves for a board mandate and whose contributions will enhance the programme’s learning environment.

Key Benefits

• Understand the broader context in which boards operate and the responsibilities that come with a board mandate
• Provide an overview of the knowledge and competences expected from directors in today’s environment
• Develop skills that contribute to the creation of an effective board culture and performance
• Hone the ability to challenge executives through positive exchanges focused on the key issues that underpin corporate performance

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The International Directors Programme consists of three modules – creating and safeguarding value, implementing effective board processes, and managing critical events – which represent the knowledge base that trained directors are expected to master and which form the basis of effective board membership.

Within each module, the programme will focus on three fundamental questions:

• What do directors need to know in order to set the direction of the company?
• What are the proper boundaries within which the company should operate?
• How best can directors exercise their responsibilities to get things done in the boardroom? 

Module 1 : Creating and Safeguarding Value
Module 2 : Implementing Effective Board Processes
Module 3 : Managing Critical Events
*Sessions under each module subject to change.

Assessment Leading to Certification

Participants who successfully complete the three modules may apply for the INSEAD Certificate in Corporate Governance. To demonstrate mastery of the skills and competences expected of board members and to obtain INSEAD's certification, participants will complete a formal examination based on International Directors Programme material and learning. The examination will include a written and an oral component.  

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This programme is designed for participants who hold position such as:

• Chairs and non-executive directors of listed and private corporations
• CEOs, COOs, CFOs and other C-suite executives
• Family members and controlling shareholders of boards of large family companies
• Directors of government and non-profit organisations and agencies
• Senior professionals from the institutional investment community
• Senior partners of professional firms who serve boards and their committees and interact with them frequently

Participants should have sufficient exposure to board matters to fully benefit from and contribute to a programme that involves role-play, simulations and exchanges with other participants.  They also must demonstrate that they possess the credibility and competences required to assume board-level responsibilities.

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Great minds don’t think alike

INSEAD’s professors represent many cultures, disciplines, and perspectives. Led by acknowledged world experts in their own particular fields, programme faculty remain intimately close to business and most are engaged in cross-disciplinary research.*

	Ludo Van der Heyden Programme Director Professor of Technology and Operations Management The Mubadala Chaired Professor in Corporate Governance and Strategy Academic Director, INSEAD Corporate Governance Initiative Ludo Van der Heyden has been Professor of Technology Management at INSEAD since 1988. He is actively teaching in the MBA, Executive, and PhD Programmes, and is currently directing INSEAD's Advanced Management Programme. He holds the Solvay Chair in Technological Innovation at INSEAD, and as such, teaches a course in technological innovation at the Solvay Business School of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.  Read more...
	Timothy Rowley Programme Director
	Enrico Diecidue Associate Professor of Decision Sciences		Helen Handfield-Jones President, Handfield Jones Inc.
	Gilles Hilary Associate Professor of Accounting and Control		Edward G. Krubasik Director in Residence, INSEAD Corporate Governance Initiative
	Frank Dangeard Director in Residence, INSEAD Corporate Governance Initiative		Jean-François Manzoni Professor of Management Practice The Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organisational Development Academic Director, INSEAD Global Leadership Centre
	Erin Meyer Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour		Stanislav Shekshnia Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
	David Tankel Principal at New Bridge Street		Susan Murray Non-executive Chairman and Non-executive Director of various Boards

*Programme faculty may change
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Dates & Fees

(1)Module 1 begins the evening prior to the first day of formal instruction

Applicants will be registered for all three modules. Modules are not interchangeable.

The modules typically last three days (Thursday to Saturday) and are scheduled at intervals of approximately two-to-three months. 

Please click here for more information about the terms and conditions.

For full details on how to apply, accommodation, and cancellation conditions please visit the Practical Information page.

* Fee subject to change. For programmes delivered in France, VAT (19.6%) to be added for companies based in France, or for European companies where no VAT number is supplied. For programmes delivered in Singapore, GST (7%) to be added for Singapore-registered companies.

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