Events

Events

ECGI engages with its members and partners through wide-raging events around the world. These take the form of academic conferences, roundtables, and practitioner-academic events. The aim of these events is to encourage discussion and debate across geographic, industry and disciplinary boundaries. An example of this, is the successful Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) which allows for academic debate between specialist academics in Finance, Law, Management and Business.

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All events  |  The ECGI Spotlight Series  |  ECGI Annual Members' Meeting  |  Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)  |  Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD)  |  Roundtable Series  |  EU Presidency Series  |  ECGI Asia Conference Series
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GCGC

Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) 2021

The sixth annual GCGC conference will take place at the Yale University, New Haven, USA. Attendance is by invitation only.

Date:
11 - 12 June 2021
Location:
Yale University, New Haven, USA
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Corporate Governance Symposium

Tuesday, 16 March 2021 09:45 – 15:00 EDT | 14:45 – 20:00 CET   Organisers Laura Field (University of Delaware and ECGI) Fei Xie (University of Delaware and ECGI)   Download programme  

Date:
16 March 2021
Location:
Online
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Stakeholder Capitalism: The Case For and Against

Should corporate leaders manage their business for all their stakeholders, or should shareholders’ interests come first? London Business School’s Centre for Corporate Governance in partnership with Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) are organizing a workshop to debate, “Stakeholder Capitalism: The Case For and Against”.

Date:
10 December 2020
Location:
Online
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The ECGI Full Picture | Policy Series
Sustainability Reporting

The IFRS Foundation has launched a public consultation on a global approach to sustainability reporting and on the possible Foundation role. They have published a consultation paper. The European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the Impact Economy Foundation organised a workshop to discuss the consultation document.

Date:
04 December 2020
Location:
Online Policy Workshop
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The ECGI Full Picture | Policy Series
Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance

The European Commission recently published a study by Ernst & Young (EY) on directors’ duties and sustainable corporate governance commissioned in 2019. ECGI held an online roundtable to discuss the report, the academic literature, and recommendations on the topics referenced in the report.

Date:
11 - 13 November 2020
Location:
Online Policy Workshop
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Can Purpose Deliver Better Corporate Governance?

This online conference brought together leading scholars, including Nobel Laureate Bengt Holmström (MIT and ECGI), from the fields of strategy, organisational theory, organisational economics, finance and corporate law...

Date:
28 - 30 October 2020
Location:
Online
Speakers:

The ECGI Spotlight Series
Active Short Selling by Hedge Funds

The inaugural seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series took place on 13 July 2020. The series was introduced by the Chair of ECGI, Professor Lucrezia Reichlin and the Executive Director, Professor Marco Becht... 

Date:
13 July 2020
Speakers:

SMEs, Families and Capital Markets

[Riga] One of the priorities mentioned in the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan of the European Commission is “easing business transfers”, for example, through reducing cross-border inheritance tax obstacles, improving information and advice services, and other initiatives. Likewise, stock exchanges are attempting to ease obstacles for SMEs, that are predominantly family-owned, to raise capital through public markets. The conference examined these tendencies. 

Date:
19 June 2020
Location:
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
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The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges

(24 Hour Global Webinar) It is already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic will have dire economic consequences, and collective thought is being applied to what policies can better ensure societies’ resilience and their quick and dynamic recovery once the crisis is over. Corporate governance scholars can help devise sound and effective policies for this purpose. This global webinar convened scholars, practitioners and policymakers with the aim of sharing evidence-based insights for the common good.

Date:
16 April 2020
Location:
Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Israel, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA
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Governance Reforms from Comparative Perspectives

[Tokyo] Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) conducted this 3-day international seminar which wrapped up past research activities and explored new issues to be challenged concerning this research project.

Date:
05 - 07 November 2019
Location:
Tokyo
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Corporate Governance And Ownership With Diverse Shareholders

This Conference offered a context to reflect upon and better understand how the different nature of shareholders have an impacted on the way companies are governed and managed...

Date:
25 - 26 October 2019
Location:
IESE Center for Corporate Governance, Barcelona
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An Academic Life in Law and Finance

The conference remembered the late Professor Brigitte Haar who passed away much too early this spring. Brigitte was Professor of Private German, European, and International Business Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt and an ECGI Research Member.

Date:
24 September 2019
Location:
Goethe University Frankfurt
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Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference

This conference at King’s College London brought together standard setters to share experiences and good practices, enhance dialogue, guide scholarship, and shape future stewardship policy through evidence-based recommendations.

Date:
23 - 24 September 2019
Location:
King’s College London
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The Future of the Firm

Corporations, and other forms of business associations, have been the subject of intense study including their history, governance, and obligations to stakeholders and the public at large...

Date:
05 July 2019
Location:
University College London, Faculty of Laws
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ECGI Roundtable Series
“Why Are Fewer Companies Going Public?”

The Roundtable focused on the reasons and implications of fewer companies going public. The steep decline in initial public offerings in the U.S. has raised concerns about reduced opportunities for...

Date:
10 June 2019
Location:
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
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Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) 2019

The fifth annual GCGC conference took place at the House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. Attendance was by invitation only.

Date:
07 - 08 June 2019
Location:
House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt
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Investors, Firms and ESG

This conference focused on the role of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) considerations in the management of public companies and the investment priorities of asset managers...

Date:
05 June 2019
Location:
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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Centros and European Company Law: Twenty Years of Living Dangerously

March 2019 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Centros case (C-212/97), without doubt the most influential judgment rendered by the (then) Court of Justice in the field of European company law...

Date:
15 March 2019
Location:
University of Oxford
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Corporate Governance and ESG investing

The Mayo Center for Asset Management at the University of Virginia, an ECGI Academic Institutional Member, and the Investment Company Institute (ICI) hosted the 2019 Academic & Practitioner Symposium on Mutual Funds and ETFs which focused this year on Corporate Governance and ESG investing

Date:
22 February 2019
Location:
Washington DC
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ECGI Roundtable Series
Loyalty Shares

The Roundtable focused on loyalty shares as a legal solution for encouraging long-term ownership, a concept that is promoted by policy makers, including the European Commission, some institutional investors and issuers. This event was by invitation only. Institutional and Patron members were invited.

Date:
18 June 2018
Location:
Brussels, Belgium
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Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) 2018

The fourth annual GCGC conference took place at Harvard University on 1 -2 June 2018. We are no longer accepting submissions for this conference. Attendance is by invitation only.

Date:
01 - 02 June 2018
Location:
Harvard Law School, USA
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Conferences
LBS

JLFA 2017 Annual Conference

The Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (JLFA) is pleased to announce its sixth conference, that was at the London Business School, Sussex Place Regents Park, Friday November 17th and Saturday November 18th, 2017. This conference was being organized in conjunction with the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Date:
17 - 18 November 2017
Location:
London
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