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.
The sixth annual GCGC conference will take place at the Yale University, New Haven, USA. Attendance is by invitation only.
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”.
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 are organising a workshop to discuss the consultation document.
The third seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series took place on 16 November 2020 at 16:00 CET (10:00 EST).
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.
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...
ECGI and the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership held a conference on Rethinking Stewardship...
ECGI and the Swedish House of Finance (SHoF) hosted a conference on Sustainable Finance on October 16-17, 2020...
This year's annual lecture was delivered by Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart (Harvard University and ECGI). The event took place online.
The second seminar in the ECGI Spotlight Series took place on 14 September 2020 at 16:00 CEST (10:00 EDT).
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...
[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.
(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.
This academic conference focused on the theme of Executive Compensation and Sustainability. Attendance was by invitation only.
[NYC] The Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance at NYU hosted a roundtable on the subject "For Whom is the Corporation Managed?" on Friday 6 December 2019
[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.
The event at Downing College, University of Cambridge considered the broader question of how best to incorporate ESG concerns into investment portfolios.
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...
The 2019 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting took place at IESE Business School, Barcelona on 24 October 2019.
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.
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.
The Mergers & Acquisitions Research Centre at Cass Business School hosted the Fourth Annual M&A Research Centre Conference on Monday 19 August 2019 at Cass Business School, London.
The Technology, Governance and Regulation Conference in Jerusalem was hosted by the Jerusalem School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University...
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...
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...
The fifth annual GCGC conference took place at the House of Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. Attendance was by invitation only.
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...
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...
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
ICGN and ECGI organised a one-day academic conference on 11 February 2019 in Amsterdam...
This academic conference focused on the theme of 'Differential Voting Shares'. Attendance was by invitation only.
The Roundtable focused on loyalty shares as a legal solution for encouraging long-term ownership, a concept that is gaining traction in Europe with the support of the European Commission, and has also attracted interest in the United States.
The Roundtable focused on the impact of new technologies such as blockchain and AI on corporate governance.
This ECGI Roundtable was hosted by Hermes Investment Management on 25 October 2018. The Roundtable focused on the nature of governance interventions by institutional shareholders.
The third Cass Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC) Conference was held at Cass Business School, City, University of London on Monday 20 August 2018.
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.
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.
The launch conference for the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance was held in Oxford on Friday May 11, 2018
The 2018 ECGI Annual Members' Meeting took place at ESMT, Berlin on 3 - 4 May 2018.
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ECGI and the Centre for Economic Policy Research hosted the book launch of: Finance and Investment: The European Case
This academic conference focused on the theme of 'Institutional Investor Activism and Engagement'.
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).
The Roundtable focused on the role of foreign institutional investors and proxy advisory firms in promoting corporate governance and sustainable investment.
This Roundtable focused on the role of employees in corporate governance against the backdrop of the recent UK Green Paper on corporate governance...
This research project, co-directed by Professor Luca Enriques (University of Oxford, Faculty of Law) and Professor Tobias Tröger (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt) has brought together top legal and finance scholars to reflect upon the role...
This seminar presented first results from an ongoing project based on a unique data set provided by a large UK asset manager, Standard Life Investments (“SLI”).
The 2nd Annual Cass M&A Conference took place on 22 August 2017 at Cass Business School (London)
The ECGI Asia Corporate Governance Dialogue (EACGD) took place in Singapore on 7 July 2017.
This conference examines the many aspects of Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance, including activism, takeovers, competition, and liquidity.
The third annual GCGC conference took place at Tokyo University on 2 -3 June 2017.
The ECGI Annual Members Meeting 2017 took place on 27-28 April 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
This conference brought together senior scholars and policymakers with the objective of examining the important questions and identifying the cutting edge insights from existing scholarship in the fields of law, economics, and finance.