Print Print

Programme

PROGRAMME (pdf version below)
08.30 – 09.00 Registration and coffee
The address of the venue is: The Copenhagen Business School, Solbjerg Plads 3 (the Tuborg auditorium on the second floor), DK-2000 Frederiksberg C, Copenhagen
09.00 – 09.05 Welcome
Finn Junge Jensen (President of CBS)
09.05 – 09.15 Introduction
Pierre Delsaux (Head of Unit and Director of Free Movement of Capital, Company Law and Corporate Governance, European Commission)
09.15 – 09.30 Keynote Introduction
Ole Blöndal (Director General, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency)
Session 1 European Corporate Governance Forum paper
Moderator: Marco Becht (Professor of Finance and Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, resident fellow of ECARES and Executive Director of ECGI)
09.30 – 10.00 European Commission input, timetable and procedures
Pierre Delsaux (European Commission)
10.00 – 10.45 European Commission study
Jean-Nicolas Caprasse (Managing Director of ISS Europe)
Christophe Clerc (European Counsel at Shearman and Sterling)
Mike Burkart (Gösta Olson Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics and Member of ECGI)
Daniel Ferreira (Lecturer at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Member of ECGI)
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 11.45 Input from other stakeholders
Jaap Winter (Partner at DeBrauw Blackstone & Westbroek,Member of ECGF)
Peter Montagnon (Director of Investment Affairs at ABI and member of ECGF)
11.45 – 12.00 Questions
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
Will be served at CBS (at no cost to delegates)
Session 2 Industry and investor perspectives
Moderator: Jose M. Garrido Garcia (Professor of Commercial and Corporate Law at the University Castilla-La Mancha, Member of ECGF and ECGI)
13.00 - 14.30
Lars Rebien Sørensen (President and Chief Executive Officer of Novo Nordisk A/S)
Hans Hirt (Associate Director – European Corporate Governance Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd)
Christian Strenger (Member of the German Government Commission on Corporate Governance)
Philippe Prouvost (Group Corporate Counsel of Pernod Richard)
Anthony Fuller (President of Fuller, Smith & Turner P.L.C)
14.15 - 14.30 Questions
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee
Session 3 Academic perspectives
Moderator: Joe McCahery (Professor of Corporate Governance and Business Innovation at the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Economics and Econometrics and Member of ECGI)
15.00 – 16.15
Julian Franks (Professor of Finance at the London Business School and Member of ECGI)
Morten Bennedsen (Professor in Applied Economic Theory at the Copenhagen Business School and Member of ECGI)
Anete Pajuste (Assistant professor, Riga Business School, Latvia and associated researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economies)
Jan Schans Christensen (Professor of Corporate Law, University of Copenhagen)
16.15 – 16.30 Questions
Summing up
16.30 – 17.00 Concluding remarks
Pierre Delsaux (European Commission)
Marco Becht (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ECARES and ECGI)

Sidst opdateret af Jens Anders Kovsted 01.10.2007