Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services and an SEC Commissioner will make keynote speeches. The conference programme also features two sessions of briefings that will re-examine the role of corporate governance in financial systems in the light of current developments and review the policy responses to the current crisis.  To conclude the event, a panel will discuss regulatory inconsistencies and tensions between Europe and the United States and whether a common approach across the Atlantic is now desirable or achievable.

Other speakers include: Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, Jörgen Holmquist, Director General for "Internal Market and Services", European Commission, Ronald Gilson, Marc & Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business,  Columbia Law School,  Gérard Hertig,  Professor of Law and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ross Levine, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Brown University, Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, Ethiopis Tafara, SEC Director of the Office of International Affairs, Paolo Volpin,  Assistant Professor of Finance, Institute of Finance and Accounting, London Business School and Eddy Wymeersch, Chairman, Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR)