Qualifications
The gold standard credential for Company Secretaries and Governance Professionals
The Chartered Governance Qualifying Programme is the gold standard credential for Company Secretaries and Governance Professionals. Our chartered designation is a hallmark demonstrating the highest degree of professional competence and expertise, respected by employers, regulators, and stakeholders alike.
CGI members are professionally qualified individuals who are responsible for ensuring proper accountability, responsibility, and transparency across an organisation in pursuit of its purpose, strategic objectives, and long-term success.
Usually reporting to the organisation’s board (and legal requirement in many markets), governance professionals include company secretaries, general counsel, chief governance officers, and legal/governance directors.
Your Career Development
Affiliated Member
If you have qualified as an Affiliated Member by taking any subjects in the Institute’s International Qualifying Programme, at some later time if you want to progress to Associate you need only pass the remaining required exams. Once qualified you can use the post-nominals of CG(Affiliated).
Graduate
Once you’ve passed the full set of required exams in the Institute’s International Qualifying Programme you’ll become a graduate of CGI. To attain graduateship you must first register as an CGI student and formally accept GradICSA status. You can then use the post-nominal GradICSA.
Associate
Graduates can apply for Associate status when they have completed six years of appropriate professional experience. This can be reduced to three years should you have a relevant degree. When you become an Associate, you are then a Chartered Secretary and/or a Chartered Governance Professional and can use the post-nominal ACG.
Fellow
Associate members can become a Fellow of the Institute when they have reached a senior level and can demonstrate at least eight years’ relevant work experience. This can be reduced with relevant education qualifications in some circumstances. When you become a Fellow you can then use the post-nominal FCG.