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Programme Dates Start Date: 21 Nov 2026 |
Register By 6 October 2026 |
Programme Fees Rs. 4,50,000/- (Non-residential, Excluding GST) |
Venue IIMB Campus and Hybrid |
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Independent Directors
Aspirants to become Independent Directors
Researchers in the field of Corporate Governance
Non-Executive Directors
The Independent Directors Certificate Programme informs how a real world of corporate governance works and the current and emerging role of an Independent Director. It will offer a clear perspective on corporate governance and conceptual models for investigating Independent Director roles and behaviour, based on both practical insights and academic understanding.
The course examines the development of corporate governance providing an integrated perspective on company law, regulatory practice, and company management and direction, in the context of contemporary corporate governance policy and structures.
The course will offer a range of examples and case studies, both recent and historical, to compare explanations of governance behaviour and effective outcomes.
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Key Benefits:
Dr. S Raghunath
Dr S Raghunath has been Professor of Strategy at IIM Bangalore and the Chairperson of the Centre For Corporate Governance at IIM Bangalore. His work has focused on themes in corporate governance, such as differing roles of company boards, strategic decisions and execution oversight, contribution of independent directors and the implications of cyber security and risk management for board members.
He is a certified trainer in corporate governance by the Global Corporate Governance Forum, sponsored under the aegis of the World Bank and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and administered by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington. He has been offering the Company Directors Programme on Board Best Practices at IIM Bangalore for the past fifteen years.
Dr S Raghunath is a member of the Board of Studies of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Ministry of Corporate Affairs. He was the Global Director of the International Masters Programme for Practicing Managers (IMPM) in 2010-2011 and has coached many CXOs of Indian companies as well as MNCs.
Dr. Raghunath is the Chairman of the South Asia Board of the Academy of International Business. He has been an independent director on the Board of Vijaya Bank, Canara Bank Mineral Exploration Corporation Limited, Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited, Kshema Technologies, Spire Technologies, Weir India, National Venture Capital Fund. He is a member of the advisory council of the Centre For Corporate Governance at IIMB. He is a Registered Consultant with the Office of Project Services, UNDP, New York.
He was a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (1990-1991) where he engaged in research in strategy making in IT companies. He was also a Visiting Professor at INSEAD, France; HEC Paris; EuroMed, Marseilles; University of Buckingham, UK; RMIT School of Business; Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Anil B Suraj
Prof. Anil B. Suraj [Ph.D. in Law]
Public Policy, IIM Bangalore
Chairperson, Office of Diversity & Inclusion
Chairperson, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Programme
At IIM Bangalore, Suraj delivers core courses on – Public Administration and Law for the Doctoral students, and Business Law for the MBA Programme, and for the Executive Management Programmes. Suraj has co-designed and delivers a popular Executive Program for Senior Professionals titled “Independent Directors Certificate Program” (IDCP), which is currently in its 8th cohort.
Suraj jointly coordinated the Phase-IV Mid-Career Training Programme in 2008, 2009 and 2010 for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officers, and regularly delivers technical sessions to Mid-career programmes of various All India Services on “Judicial Review of Policy making”, “Fiduciary levels of Accountability in Governance”; “Public Contracts and Projects”; “WTO & TRIPs”; and “Intellectual Property Rights & Data Protection”. Suraj has also addressed Senior Bureaucrats of – South Korea, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Maldives, and from more than 45 countries of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean region. Many of these technical sessions have been at the invite of the National Centre for Good Governance, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India.
Prior to joining IIM Bangalore in March 2007, Suraj was a Research Fellow at the National Judicial Academy, India, wherein he coordinated the first ever initiative of a course module and a training programme on Court Management and Judicial Administration in India. In August 2025, Suraj has been nominated by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India as Expert Member of the National Court Management Systems Committee. Suraj has also been a Member of the first Working Group of the Planning Commission for Union Ministry of Law and Justice for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017).
Since graduating from the National Law School Bangalore in 2000, and completing doctoral study on the theme of “Defensive Mechanisms under the WTO”, the range of research themes pursued by Suraj includes – Ease of Doing Business; Public Contract Law; Citizen-centricity of Regulatory Governance; Anti-dumping policy in India and the EU; Legal impact of WTO/TRIPs on small-scale industries; Access to Justice for the Poor and the Disadvantaged; and Judicial Impact Assessment Models.
Suraj has also co-authored a research paper titled “Redesign of Government Business Relations in India and the Role of Legal Process” presented at, and published by, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, at the Stanford University. Suraj has published a Chapter on “Ensuring Ease of Doing Business” in the recent Book publication titled Reforms and Resurgence: Crafts of Governance in India; and a Chapter on “Democratic Decentralisation: Power to the People” in the February 2025 Book publication titled Viksit Bharat @2047: Governance Transformed, published by International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels.
Payment schedule
The programme fee is INR 4,50,000/- + GST (applicable rates) per participant, payable in three instalments as per the following schedule:
1.Rs.1,00,000/- +Applicable GST On acceptance of the admission offer
2.Rs. 80,000/- +Applicable GST – I instalment on admission
3.Rs. 1,35,000/- +Applicable GST – II instalment on 15-Jan-2027
4.Rs. 1,35,000/- +Applicable GST – III instalment on 17-Mar-2027
Please Note: *Please add GST at prevailing rates to the programme fee.
You are required to upload your Resume and Bachelors Degree Certificate in the online application portal.
For any queries related to the programme, please contact Ms. Preethi on Phone no. +91-80-26993375; +91-8951974073 or Email ID at preethi.s@iimb.ac.in
A certificate of completion will be awarded by IIMB to participants upon successful completion of the programme and satisfying programme requirements.
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Ms. Preethi
Landline No.:+91-80-26993375
Mobile No. +91-8951974073
Email: preethi.s@iimb.ac.in
A part time programme certificate of completion will be awarded by IIMB to participants upon successful completion of the programme and satisfying programme requirements.
The participants become IIMB EEP alumni on successful completion of the programme and thereby gain access to the alumni network across various industry sectors.