ICGN -- DELAWARE
DINNER & CONFERENCE

“U.S. Corporate Governance Reforms –
A Global Perspective”

Hotel duPont
Wilmington, Delaware

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CONFERENCE AGENDA 

7:30a    Registration 

8:15     Welcome          Honorable Ruth Ann Minner, Governor, State of Delaware
                                  Alastair Ross Goobey – Chair, ICGN 

8:30     Regulation or Engagement? – Which is the Best Model for Governance Reform? 

Moderator:  John Wilcox, Georgeson Shareholder Communications Inc.

Panelists:  

      Delaware Supreme Court Justice Henry duPont Ridgely

      Delaware Chancellor William B. Chandler III

      Peter Butler, Hermes CEO (UK)

      Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law Professor

      Alan Beller, director of SEC Division of Corporation Finance (invited)

9:30     Can Institutions Really Act as Owners? 

Moderator:  Peter Clapman, TIAA-CREF

Panelists:  

      Delaware Vice Chancellor Stephen P. Lamb

      Jack Bogle, Vanguard

      Ralph Whitworth, Relational Investors

      Geert Raaijmakers, ABP (Netherlands)

      Eric Roiter, Fidelity

10:30   Break

10:45   Can Directors Really Represent Shareholders? 

Moderator:  Peggy Foran, Pfizer

Panelists:  

      Delaware Vice Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr

      Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times

      David Shedlarz, Pfizer CFO and director, Pitney Bowes

      Joe Grundfest, former SEC commissioner (invited)

12:00   Friday Luncheon Keynote Speaker - Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron T. Steele

 1:30p   Can Governance Practice Keep up with Policy? 

Moderator:  Richard Koppes, former CalPERS general counsel

Panelists:  

      Delaware Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons, Jr.

      Linda Crompton, CEO, IRRC

      Alan MacDougall, PIRC (UK)

      Cyndi Richson, Ohio PERS

      Pattie Dunn, Barclays Global Investors

2:30     Break

2:45     Executive Renumeration, the Intractable Governance Dilemma? 

Moderator:  Charles Elson, University of Delaware

Panelists:  

      Former Delaware Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey

      Delaware Supreme Court Justice Jack B. Jacobs

      Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO

      Beth Young, The Corporate Library

      John (Jack) Krol, retired CEO and chair, DuPont.

3:45     A Federal Model of International Governance? 

Moderator:  Stephen Davis, Global Proxy Watch

Panelists:  

   Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland

   Sir Graeme Davis, Vice-Chancellor, University of London and chair, Universities Superannuation Scheme

   Ken Georgetti, president of Canadian Labour Congress and chair, Committee for International Cooperation on Workers’ Capital

   Holly Gregory, Weil Gotshal & Manges, authored the report to the European Commission on Corporate Governance Codes

   Jaap Winter, DeBrauw Blackstone Westbroek and chair, European Commission panels on governance, takeover regulation and share voting

4:45     Summary & Conclusion