First Filipino accredited as qualified risk director

Teodoro Kalaw IV, an independent director at the Gothong Southern Group of Companies, has become the first Filipino to be granted the prestigious qualified risk director (QRD) designation by the DCRO Institute, the world's leading authority on risk governance training and credentials, the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) announced.

Kalaw holds a prominent leadership role within the ICD as corporate secretary, thought leadership chair, past trustee and its youngest Life Fellow. He was instrumental in launching ICD's Family Firm Governance, Sustainability Strategy and Reporting and Masterclass programs.

He is also president emeritus and past chair of the Philippine Institute of Arbitrators and serves as a law professor at Ateneo Law School. He is currently president of both the Fellowship of IP Counselors of the Philippines Inc., the Philippine association of the International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys and the Institute of Philippine Real Estate Appraisers, the Philippine member organization of the International Valuation Standards Council.