Demystifying Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Karamo NM Sonkohas has more than twenty years of experience in CSR, environmental oversight, government relations and corporate governance. He is Chairman, Heeno International; CEO, Jula Consultancy FZE; Chairman, Taf Africa Global; Strategic Adviser to the Managing Director & CEO, Perseus Mining. He is Chairman of the WellBoring Foundation (West Africa). He has worked at the UN and IMF and taught at five universities in Canada, Europe and the USA. He has published extensively.Mariama Sonko has a bachelor’s degree from the Sorbonne (Abu Dhabi campus) in Economics and Management and a Master of Science (M.Sc, with Distinction) degree in finance from Heriot-Watt University (Dubai). She holds postgraduate executive education certificates from the Cambridge Judge Business School in Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies, Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership in Sustainable Finance and from the Harvard Business School in Financial Leadership. She is executive assistant and sustainability adviser at Jula Consultancy in Sharjah, UAE, and has made presentations on ESG to numerous political and business leaders. She has co-authored a book on Islamic finance (2020).

Part I. Overview and Relevance in Africa.- 1. ESG: Importance, Origins and Emergence.- 2. ESG in Africa: Necessity and Applicability.- Part II.The Strategic Management of ESG during and after a Global Pandemic.- 3. Applying Strategic Management to ESG: Relevance of a Multipronged Approach through the African PESTLE Analysis (APA).- 4. The COVID-19 Pandemic and ESG Reporting Priorities in Africa: Far Beyond Business as Usual.- 5. Designing and Reporting ESG Disclosures.- Part III. Regional Case Studies.- 6. ESG in Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.- 7. An Empirical Analysis of ESG and Corporate Performance.- Part IV.The Way Forward.- 8. ESG in Africa: The Way Forward for Stakeholders.