Held at the BEI Conference Room in the capital, the seminar on 'Corporate Governance for Bangladesh: Issues and Challenges' was chaired by Dr Mohammed Farashuddin, a former governor of Bangladesh Bank.

Three separate keynotes were presented at the seminar, describing various aspects of corporate governance practices in Bangladesh.

Lopa Rahman, project director of BEI, in her keynote on 'Corporate Governance and Bangladesh Enterprise Institute' said BEI initiated the project as there is an e-link between good governance, better performance and foreign investment.

The two other keynotes on 'Corporate Governance: Theories Models and Principles' and 'Corporate Governance: Issues, Concepts, Theories and Applications in Bangladesh' were presented by Mahbubur Rahman, company secretary of British American Tobacco Bangladesh, and Anis A Khan, chief executive officer of Industrial Development Leasing Company (IDLC) of Bangladesh Ltd.