Prof Mervyn King

Mervyn King is a Senior Counsel and former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He was Professor Extraordinaire at the University of South Africa on Corporate Citizenship and is an Honorary Professor at the Universities of Pretoria and Cape Town and a Visiting Professor at Rhodes.

Mervyn King is currently a professor at the Wits Business School at the University of the Witwatersrand.

He has an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Universities of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and Leeds in the UK, an honorary Doctorate from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia and a honorary Doctorate in Commerce from Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and is Chair Emeritus of the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa, which produced King I, II, III and IV.

He is Chair of Emeritus of the Value Reporting Foundation, African Integrated Reporting Council and the Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa. He has been a chair, director and chief executive of several companies listed on the London, Luxembourg and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges.

He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards for promoting quality corporate governance globally from the ICGN, the Asian Centre for Corporate Governance, the Indian IOD and the Regenesys Business School. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Commerce, honorary fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; of the Institute of Internal Auditors of the UK; of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia; of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations of the UK, of the Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and a Chartered Director of South Africa.

He is the Patron of The Good Governance Academy, currently housed in the Wits Business School in Parktown Ridge, which holds colloquia on critical governance issues and distributes a memorandum to over five million members of local and international institutions.