Programme
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Tuesday
9 October 2007
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| 9.00-9.30am |
Registration and continental breakfast |
| 9.30-9.45am |
Welcome |
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Antonio
Borges
Chairman, European Corporate Governance Institute;
Vice-Chairman,
Goldman Sachs International
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Lance
Liebman
Director of the American Law Institute;
William S. Beinecke Professor of Law,
Columbia University |
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Session 1 – Keynote speech
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| 9.45-10.30am |
Keynote speaker
Christopher Cox
Chairman,
Securities and Exchange Commission
Q&A |
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| 10.30-10.45am |
Coffee |
Session
2 – Empirical Finance
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10.45am-12.30pm |
Moderator
Roberta
Cooper Ramo
Shareholder, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk P.A.;
1st Vice President and President Designate, The American Law Institute |
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Panel |
René Stulz
Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics;
Director of
the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Ohio State University; ECGI
Fellow |
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Luigi
Zingales
Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of
Chicago Graduate School of Business;
ECGI Fellow |
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| 12.30pm |
Lunch (Lunch will not be
provided) |
Session
3 – Keynote speech
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| 2.00-2.45pm |
Keynote speaker
Eddy
Wymeersch
Chairman, Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR)
Q&A |
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Session
4– Comparative Law |
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| 2.45-4.15pm |
Moderator
Luca
Enriques
Commissioner, Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa;
ECGI Research Associate |
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Briefing
Howell E. Jackson
James S. Reid, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School |
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| Panel |
John
C. Coffee
Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School;
ECGI Fellow
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Eilís
Ferran
Professor of Company and Securities Law, University of Cambridge Law Faculty
and Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law;
ECGI Research Associate |
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| 4.15-4.30pm |
Coffee |
Session
5 –Making Corporate Governance work
across the Atlantic
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| 4.30-5.45pm |
Moderator
Senior Counsel,
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
President of the American Law Institute
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Panel |
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Pierre
Delsaux
Director, Free Movement of Capital,
Company Law and Corporate Governance,
DG, Internal Market
and Services, European Commission |
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Harvey
Goldschmid
Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School;
former Commissioner, Securities
and Exchange Commission |
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Paul Sarbanes
Former US Senator;
co-sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 |
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Jaap
Winter
Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek |
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Session
6 – Summing
up
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| 5.45-6.00pm |
Marco
Becht
Professor of Finance and Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles;
ECGI
Executive Director |
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Lance
Liebman
Director of the American Law Institute;
William S. Beinecke Professor of Law,
Columbia University |
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