[Watch] Should the Executive Director have a vote on the Board?
Should the Executive Director have a vote on the Governing Board? In this video we discuss some issues to consider.
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Ricardo Wyngaard is passionate about the non-profit sector and has been focusing on non-profit law since 1999. He is a lawyer by profession who has obtained his LLB degree at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and his LLM degree at the University of Illinois in the USA. He has authored a number of articles and booklets on non-profit law and governance.
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