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.

View the following Series:
All events 
ECGI Annual Members' Meeting 
Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
 Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD) 
Roundtable Series
EU Presidency Series
ECGI Asia Conference Series

 

Upcoming events

E.g., 2019-06-16
E.g., 2019-06-16

Corporate Governance And Ownership With Diverse Shareholders

This Conference will offer a context to reflect upon and better understand how the different nature of shareholders have an impact on the way companies are governed and managed, and, eventually, on some key decisions – like board composition, board dynamics, CEO hiring and firing, strategy making and incentives design- that define corporate governance.

Date:
25 - 26 October 2019
Location:
IESE Center for Corporate Governance, Barcelona
Speakers:

Technology, Governance and Regulation

The Technology, Governance and Regulation Conference in Jerusalem is hosted by the Jerusalem School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University and co-organized by Professor Yishay Yafeh of the Hebrew University and Professor Sharon Belenzon of Duke University.

Date:
08 - 09 July 2019
Location:
Jerusalem, Israel
Speakers:

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
Speakers:

ECGI Roundtable Series
“Why Are Fewer Companies Going Public?”

The Roundtable will focus 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
Speakers:

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
Speakers:

Investors, Firms and ESG

This conference will focus 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
Speakers:

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
Speakers:

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) are hosting the 2019 Academic & Practitioner Symposium on Mutual Funds and ETFs which will focus this year on Corporate Governance and ESG investing

Date:
22 February 2019
Location:
Washington DC
Speakers:

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
Speakers:

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
Speakers:

Institutional Investor Activism and Engagement

This academic conference will focus on the theme of 'Institutional Investor Activism and Engagement'. Attendance is by invitation only.

Date:
10 - 11 December 2017
Location:
Tel Aviv & Jerusalem, Israel
Speakers:
Conferences
LBS

JLFA 2017 Annual Conference

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

Date:
17 - 18 November 2017
Location:
London
Speakers:

The Law and Finance of Related Party Transactions

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...

Date:
20 - 21 October 2017
Location:
Frankfurt, Germany
Speakers:

Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance

This conference examines the many aspects of Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance, including activism, takeovers, competition, and liquidity.

Date:
09 - 10 June 2017
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
Speakers:
GCGC

Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) 2017

The third annual GCGC conference took place at Tokyo University on 2 -3 June 2017.

Date:
02 - 03 June 2017
Location:
Tokyo University, Japan
Speakers:

The Future Framework for European Capital Markets: Law & Finance

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.

Date:
13 - 14 January 2017
Location:
University of Oxford, Oxford
Speakers:

CSEF-EIEF-SITE Conference on Finance and Labor

The conference, held in Capri on 8-9 September 2016, aimed to bring together researchers from financial and labor economics to discuss issues from the point of view of both disciplines. 

Date:
08 - 09 September 2016
Location:
Anacapri, Italy
Speakers:
GCGC

Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) 2016

The second annual GCGC conference took place at Stockholm School of Economics on 10 - 11 June 2016.

Date:
10 - 11 June 2016
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
Speakers:
GCGC
SLS

Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC)
Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC) 2015

The inaugural GCGC conference took place at Stanford University on 5 - 6 June 2015.

Date:
05 - 06 June 2015
Location:
California, USA
Speakers:

Shareholder Power Conference

This Conference was part of a larger project on Shareholder Power arising out of a collaboration between the National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Law & Business and the Vanderbilt Uni

Date:
06 - 07 March 2014
Location:
NUS Law School, Singapore
Speakers:

Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue (TCGD)
The Realities of Stewardship for Institutional Owners, Activist Investors and Proxy Advisors

The theme of the tenth conference in the series which took place in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, 3rd December 2013 was The Realities of Stewardship for Institutional Owners, Activist Investors and Proxy Advisors.  

Date:
03 December 2013
Location:
Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington DC
Speakers: