Invitation to the TCGD Conference on 17th September 2009
| The New Role of Government |  |
Thursday, 17th September 2009 Securities and Exchange Commission Washington DC | ||
A free all-day conference organised by the European Corporate Governance Institute, the Brookings Institution and Columbia Law School. The organisers are grateful for support for the 2009 Conference from the Securities and Exchange Commission, the European Commission and the Swedish EU Presidency. | ||
Programme | Conference registration | Directions | Background to the Dialogue | ||
Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Jörgen Holmquist, Director General for "Internal Market and Services" at the European Commission, will make keynote speeches. The conference programme also features a briefing session followed by panel discussion on the role of Government as investor in Europe and the United States now that the financial crisis has caused the US and EU member states to become the owners, or substantial equity holders, of a number of large financial and industrial companies. A second briefing and discussion will examine the issue of Executive compensation, how should it be reformed and whether there is a a role for government to be the monitor. To conclude the conference, a panel will discuss the Future of the Government Involvement, for instance looking at whether new laws are needed to allow governments to intervene more rapidly in the restructuring of systemically important enterprises and what safeguards might be required for shareholders when governments do intervene.
Other confirmed speakers at the Conference which will be chaired byProfessor Ronald Gilson, Marc & Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia Law School and Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School include: Professor Lucian Bebchuk, Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School; Professor Marco Becht, Professor of Finance and Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles; Antonio Borges, Chairman, European Corporate Governance Institute; Professor Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University; Kemal Dervis, Vice President and Director, Global Economy and Development, The Brookings Institution; Professor Jeffrey Gordon, Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law, Columbia Law School; Professor Gérard Hertig, Professor of Law and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Professor Steve Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business; Ethiopis Tafara, Director of the Office of International Affairs, United States Securities and Exchange Commission; Maria-Cristina Ungureanu, Researcher, University of Genoa and Professor Jaap Winter, Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
The Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue was established in 2004 in order to bring together leading academics from law, economics and finance, regulators, judges, lawmakers, corporate leaders, investors, andother corporate constituencies to engage in forward-looking discussions of corporate governance issues that are or will be at the forefront of policymaking on both sides of the Atlantic. The Dialogue is endorsed by the European Commission. Transcripts of speeches and other remarks at past Dialogues are available at:
