European Commission Green Papers on Corporate Governance and the ECGI Research Agenda

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels
Thursday 8 September 2011


An academic conference to identify the corporate governance research agenda of relevance to issues raised in the European Commission's Green Papers on the Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions and on the Corporate Governance of all European corporations. Attendance is by invitation only.
Introduction | Programme | Report of proceedings and research recommendations | List of participants | Background papers

List of meeting participants

Professor Marco Becht
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Finance and Economics
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Mr Martin Berka
(European Parliament)
Assistant to Evzen Tosenovsky MEP
European Parliament
Ms Magda Bianco
(ECGI Research Member)
Ufficio Diritto dell'economia
Banca d'Italia
Professor Arturo Bris
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Finance
IMD
Professor Mike Burkart
(ECGI Research Member)
Gösta Olson Professor of Finance
Stockholm School of Economics
Ms Claire Bury
(European Commission)
Acting Director, Capital and Companies Directorate
DG Internal Market and Services
Professor Pierre-Henri Conac
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Commercial and Company Law
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of Luxembourg
Mr Paul Coombes
(Non-member)
Chairman, Centre for Corporate Governance
London Business School
Professor Paul Davies
(ECGI Research Member)
Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Mr Eric Ducoulombier
(European Commission)
Deputy Head, Corporate governance, social responsibility unit
DG Internal Market and Services
Professor Luca Enriques
(ECGI Research Member)
Commissioner
Commissione Nazionale per le Societa e la Borsa (CONSOB)
Professor Julian Franks
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Finance
London Business School
Professor Xavier Freixas
(CEPR)
Professor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Professor Thomas Gehrig
(CEPR)
Professor, Faculty of Business, Economics, and Statistics
University of Vienna
Professor Marc Goergen
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Finance
Cardiff Business School
Mr Leo Goldschmidt
(ECGI Board Member)
Director
European Corporate Governance Institute
Professor María Gutiérrez Urtiaga
(ECGI Research Member)
Associate Professor
Department of Business and Finance, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Mr Marc Hertgen
(European Commission)
Policy Officer, Capital and Companies Directorate
DG Internal Market and Services
Professor (em.) Klaus Hopt
(ECGI Research Member)
Emeritus Professor
Max-Planck Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht
Dr Stefano Lombardo
(ECGI Research Member)
Assistant Professor of Economic Law
Free University of Bolzano
Professor Ernst Maug
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor for Corporate Finance, Mannheim Business School
University of Mannheim
Professor Colin Mayer
(ECGI Research Member)
Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies
Said Business School, University of Oxford
Professor Joseph McCahery
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of International Economic Law and Professor of Financial Market Regulation
Tilburg University Faculty of Law and Tilburg Law and Economics Center
Mr Jeremy Miller
(ECGI Conference report editor)
Communications Director
European Corporate Governance Institute
Professor Peter Muelbert
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for German and International Law of Financial Services
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Professor Giovanna Nicodano
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Financial Economics
Università di Torino
Dr Alessio Pacces
(ECGI Research Member)
Associate Professor of Law and Economics
Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Professor Fausto Panunzi
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Economics
Istituto di Economia Politica & IGIER, Università Bocconi
Mr Matthias Schmidt-Gerdts
(European Commission)
Policy Officer, Capital and Companies Directorate
DG Internal Market and Services
Mr Richard Smerdon
(ECGI Conference rapporteur)
Editor
Practical Governance
Professor Christoph Van Der Elst
(ECGI Research Member)
Professor of Business Law
Tilburg University
Professor Jaap Winter
(ECGI Board Member)
Partner
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Mr Tim Wittenberg
(European Commission)
Trainee
DG Internal Market and Services
Mr Eddy Wymeersch
(ECGI Board Member)
Chairman
European Corporate Governance Institute
Dr Kostas Zachariadis
(Non-member)
Lecturer in Finance
London School of Economics

The meeting is supported by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) under its Politics, Economics and Global Governance the European Dimensions (PEGGED) programme and the London Business School’s Centre for Corporate Governance.