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titleAjai Addresses India's Policy Makers at Corporate Governance ConferenceThursday, September 17, 2009

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Dr Olawale Ajai of the LBS faculty was recently in Kolkata, India to present a paper at the International Conference on the Convergence of Corporate Governance Norms.

Organised by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and the National Foundation for Corporate Governance, India, the two-day conference focused on various aspects of corporate governance norms, and aimed to highlight best practices. 

The conference was inaugurated by India's Minister for Corporate Affairs Salman Khurshid, and attended by other government officials and corporate executives.

Ajai's paper titled 'Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Duties of Directors, Officers and Shareholders of Companies - a Comparative Survey of Law and Political Economy' focused on corporate decision making.  In it he argues that the Anglo-Saxon model best epitomizes the global norm, placing responsibility for corporate social responsibility (CSR) on companies.

He said: "Responsibility for directors of companies to have regards to CSR is now universal and is very much mandated by public law world-wide, but it has not been possible to create in companies worldwide a classical director's duty to CSR."

He added that recent developments in company law have now required directors to consider stakeholder's interest in corporate decision making.  This he says is the Anglo-Saxon model.

According to him, "Convergence towards the Anglo-Saxon model is probably the way to go.  It is the more pragmatic model."

Dr Olawale Ajai teaches Business Law and Social & Political Environment of Business at LBS. He was an Associate Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies before joining LBS, and also Executive Director and Company Secretary of Dunlop Nigeria.

One of his areas of research is in corporate governance and corporate control.

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