London Governance & Compliance Academy

Petros Florides

Petros Florides

Petros Florides has over 25 years of financial services experience in areas of private banking, fund management, stockbroking, private equity, proprietary trading and microfinance. He is currently employed by World Vision International as Senior Director of Global Governance for the regions of Europe, Middle East and Asia. Petros has published numerous articles on governance and related areas, and was the lead author of the Code for Public Sector Governance which, after five years of public consultation, was approved by the Cyprus Council of Ministers in July 2019. Petros is also a Non-Executive Director of Windsor Brokers, NetU Consultants and Pearlscope.

Petros is Co-Founder of the Cyprus National Advisory Council for the CISI, and has also served on its UK Board of Trustees since June 2019. He is also a Certified Sustainability (ESG) Practitioner and a Certified ISO27001 (ISMS) and ISO14001 (EMS) Internal Auditor; and, represents the Cyprus Institute of Directors on various ecoDa fora.

Petros is accredited in two different methods of psychometric testing that he uses to integrate an understanding of human behaviour in his teaching of professional and bespoke executive courses in the areas of governance, risk, leadership and ethics through CISI Accredited Training Providers. He is also a regular speaker and panellist at public events on the same subjects. Petros is an honours graduate in Accountancy, a Chartered Management Accountant, a diploma-holding member of the Institute of Directors and a Certificant of the Institute of Risk Management