Part 5: The View from Eastern & Southern Africa - The COVID 19 Experience of Corporate Africa

This is Part 5 of a 9 part series of 4 min interviews with Corporate Leaders on the COVID 19 experience of Corporate Africa. Part 5 interviews Stanley Tsikirayi. Stanley is a highly experienced governance practitioner who serves on Boards in Eastern & Southern Africa.

In Part 5, Stanley responds to the second of three questions:

"How well did Corporate Africa mitigate the risks of the COVID 19 pandemic? What lessons have been learnt?".

Parts 1 to 3 sought the perspectives of Sadia Chinery-Hesse, Stanley and Lamin Manjang on our first question regarding the foreseeability of the pandemic in the African context. Sadia responded to this second question in Part 4.

Sadia is Group Head, Legal & Company Secretary, Enterprise Group West Africa. Enterprise are an insurance company headquartered in Ghana, with operations in Nigeria and The Gambia.

Lamin is the Group CEO for West Africa operations of Standard Chartered Bank. His previous assignments with the Bank recently included a stint as Group CEO of the Bank's East Africa operations.

Our guests are interviewed by the Chair of the GQR Board of Directors, Mr Sola Mahoney. His profile can be viewed on the governance tab of this website.