Twenty Years after Cadbury, Ten Years after Sarbanes-Oxley: Challenges of Corporate Governance Conference

Twenty Years after Cadbury, Ten Years after Sarbanes-Oxley: Challenges of Corporate Governance
Conference, PhD Colloquium and Special Issue of Journal of Empirical Finance
Guest Editor: Professor Anna Zalewska

Academic keynote speakers:
Professor Kevin J. Murphy, USC Marshall School of Business, USA
Professor David Yermack, NYU Stern Business School, USA

Panel of practitioners:
Lord Ian MacLaurin, Former CEO and Chairman of Tesco PLC and former Chairman of Vodafone Group PLC
Sir Julian Horn-Smith, Founding member of Vodafone Group, former Deputy CEO of Vodafone, Senior advisor to UBS Investment Bank, London, and CVC
Philip Lowe, Director General for Energy in the European Commission and former Director General for Competition
Charles Tilley, Chief Executive of CIMA
Lord Christopher Tugendhat, Former Chairman of Abbey National plc and of Blue Circle Industries plc and former Vice-President of the European Commission

This conference will bring together leading academics and practitioners from around the world working in the area of corporate governance to discuss developments over the last two decades, issues of current concern, and future directions in the corporate governance evolution process. In particular, it will address the effects and effectiveness of past changes in government policies, codes of good practice, shareholder activism and internal, i.e. firm-driven, initiatives aimed at improving corporate governance. It will aim to inform the future direction of development.