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Carina Wessels

Topic: Handling Conflict of Interest: The legal and ethical way

Carina holds an LLB and two LLM degrees, one in Labour Law and one in Extractive Industry Law in Africa (cum laude), a certificate in Advanced Labour Law (cum laude), and a PMD (cum laude). She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, fellow and past President of the Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa, as well as past President of the Corporate Secretaries International Association. Carina is a seasoned executive with varied experience spanning a career in the mining and financial services industries.

She is a respected thought leader, with a broad range of academic and other publications and a regular speaker in Southern Africa and internationally. In addition to acting in an advisory capacity, she has extensive non-executive director and audit committee member experience in both public service and commercial companies. Amongst several other accolades, she was the African Legal Awards General Counsel of the year in 2020 and the National Positive Role model in the 2020 Gender Mainstreaming Awards.