Elsa Satkunasingam
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Senior Business Development Adviser, Corporate Governance and Sustainability
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Biography
Dr Elsa Satkunasingam is a Senior Business Development Adviser, Corporate Governance & Sustainability at the Iclif Executive Education Center at Asia School of Business. She conducts training and research in areas related to corporate governance, compliance and organizational culture for financial institutions and companies.
She was formerly the Deputy General Manager, Corporate Secretariat Division at the Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corporation (PIDM) specializing in research and training on corporate governance and compliance. Prior to that she headed the Corporate Governance Department at Bursa Malaysia and was involved in the development of corporate governance and sustainability programs and publications.
Elsa was an academic at Monash University in Sunway for several years where she researched and taught business law and corporate governance. She developed the corporate governance unit which still part of the degreed program. She has been a speaker and a panel member at talks and conferences organized by the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, the Malaysian Bar Council, CPA Australia and the Companies Commission Malaysia.
Elsa has published several book chapters and journal articles in the area of corporate governance, in local and international publications. Her publications include articles on governance and national culture, case studies on failures in corporate governance in Malaysian organizations and the constitutional position of Islamic banks. She also contributes articles on governance, culture and sustainability to Corporate Voice, published by MAICSA. Elsa has also been featured on BFM several times and has been featured in the Star and Astro Awani for her expertise on governance in sovereign wealth funds.
Her current areas of research are board culture, organizational culture, and corporate governance practices in Malaysian companies.
She holds a PhD from Monash University and a Master of Laws and Bachelor of Laws from University Malaya. She is an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.