Admitted attorney and conveyance of High Court of South Africa
LLM: Law of Contract (University of Pretoria)
LLM: Corporate Law (University of Pretoria)
Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership (University of Cambridge)

Cathie has over 25 years’ experience in governance and legal work, of which 11 has been as a group company secretary, and the last few years in the sustainability field. She has lectured, practiced as an attorney and conveyancer for own account and advised as in-house legal counsel.

Cathie is the group company secretary of Grindrod Limited, a company listed on the JSE. In her role she is responsible for inter alia the governance, compliance, company secretariat, integrated reporting, ethics and sustainability strategy of the company. She is Principal Officer of Grindrod pension and provident funds, board member and chairman of the KZN Advisory Council of the National Business Initiative (NBI), one of the founding members of Co-Go, a collaborative governance network for water security, assists with reviewing some of the practice guidance for LexisNexis when requested and provides training and participates as speaker at conferences on an ad hoc basis.

Should you wish to join an Inclusive Business network in South Africa please see below links:

• https://www.nbi.org.za/
• https://www.businessengage.co.za/

For further research on the topics discussed during the Leaders Chat with Cathie Lewis please see below links:

• https://www.unglobalcompact.org/sdgs
• https://home.kpmg/za/en/home/insights/2016/10/king-iv-summary-guide.html
• http://netpositiveimpact.earth/eng/
• https://www.wbcsd.org/
• https://www.weforum.org/

This lesson contains 1 section:

• Video Lesson – (1 hour 26 min 53 sec)