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5th International Conference on Corporate Governance
The Royal Horticultural Hall and Conference Centre, London

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13-14 May 2004
Theme: "Governance of Corporations in a Disparate World"
Tentative Programme**
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Thursday, 13 May 2004
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0900 - 1000 Registration
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10.00 - 11.15 Plenary - 1
Opening Session
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Ola Ullsten, Former Prime Minister of Sweden
Dr. Sahib Singh, Union Minister for Labour, Government of India
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Holme of Cheltenham, CBE, UK
Julia Cleverdon, Chief Executive, Business in the Community
Barbara Thomas Judge, JD, Dy Chairman, Financial Reporting Council, UK
Justice M N Venkatachaliah, Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India
Dr. Madhav Mehra, President, World Council for Corporate Governance, U.K.

11.15 - 11.30 Presentation of Golden Peacock Awards for Excellence in Corporate Governance
11.30 - 11.45 Tea
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11.45 - 13.00 Plenary 2
  Keynote Speakers
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Governance of Corporations in A Disparate World
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  Charles Handy, best selling author, broadcaster, economist, former Chairman Royal Society of Arts
Dr Simon Deakin, Robert Monks Professor of Corporate Governance & Director of Centre for Corporate Governance University of Cambridge
M Damodaran IAS, Chairman UTI (India's biggest mutual fund) & Chairman Industrial Dev. Bank of India
13.00 - 13.45 Lunch
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13.45 - 15.00 Plenary - 3
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Strategic Transformation - Building Corporations That Last
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Martin Scicluna, Chairman, Deloitte & Touche LLP, U.K. (chair)
Professor Bob Garratt, Chairman, Board Performance Services, UK
F.C. Kohli, Director Tata Infotech
Mandy Cormack*, Vice President Corporate Responsibility, Unilever
Prof. Tapas Mahapatra, ICFAI Business School, India
Dr Shalini Khandelwal, ICFAI Business School, India
Alan Gilham, Director, Sustainability Works Limited, Ghana

15.00 - 15.15 Tea
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15.15 – 16.30 Plenary - 4
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Role of Corporate Boards in Driving Globalisation Without its Discontent
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  Lord Levene of Portsoken KBE, Chairman Lloyd's UK (Chair)
Stephen M. Ruckman
, Fellow & Program Manager, Hills Program on Governance, USA
Dr Oumer Makalou, President & Director CERDES, Mali, West Africa
Prof. Poonam Kumar, Chairperson & Managing Director, Mega Ace Consultancy (I) Ltd., India
Sunil Kulwal, Executive President, Grasim Industries
Fernando Lefort, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

 
16.30 – 16.45 Tea
   
16.45 – 18.15 Plenary – 5
   
Embedding Ethics and Values in the Organisations Culture
 
P N Bhagwati, Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India, India
Peter Frankental
, Programme Director, Amnesty International UK
Shailesh Haribhakti,
President, Indian Merchants Chamber, India
John Reynolds
, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
Ramesh Vengal, President, Scandant Group, Singapore
Dr Igor Belikov
, Director, Russian Institute of Directors, Russia
 
 19.00 - 21.00  Welcome Dinner (Hall of India, Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Pl, St. James St. SW1)
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5th International Conference on Corporate Governance, (contd.)
Friday, 14th May 2004

08.30 - 10.00 Plenary - 6
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Improving Legal and Statutory Framework for Effective Corporate Governance
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  Barbara Thomas Judge, JD, Dy Chairman, Financial Reporting Council, UK (Chair)
Justice A M Ahmadi, Former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India, India(co-chair)
Ken Rushton
, Project Director, Financial Services Authority
Judge Mervyn King, President Commonwealth Association of Corporate Governance, South Africa
Sandra Moss, Barrister-at-law, Charted Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
Raghu Modi, Chairman, Rasoi Group, India.
10.00 - 10.15 Tea
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10.15 - 11.45 Plenary - 7
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  Corporate Governance in Action - Part I
Corporate Social Responsibility
 
  Sandra MacLeod, Chief Executive, Eco Research, UK
David Arkless, Senior Vice President Corporate Affairs, Manpower Inc, Brussels
Dr (Rev) Graham Wilson UK
Dr N.M. Kondop, Pro-Vice Chancellor, NMIMS Mumbai, India
Victor Ooi Boon Beng, CEO, Biz Aid Technologies Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Prof. P K Banerjea, ICFAI Business School, India
 
11.45 – 13.15 Plenary - 8
   
  Corporate Governance in Action - Part II
CSR - Turning Rhetoric into Reality
 
Claude Fussler, Director WBCSSD & Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact
Peter Walker, Chairman PIELLE Consulting, UK
Prof. (Dr) Rajat K Baisya, Head, Dept. of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India
A.A.A. Ayorinde, Sustainable Ibadan Project, Nigeria
Prof. Michael Kaye, University of Portsmouth
Dr Marilyn Dyason, Justices'Chief Executive, Magistrates' Courts
 
13.15 - 14.00 Lunch
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14.00 - 15.15 Plenary - 9
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  Improving Effectiveness of Corporate Boards 
   

a Dr Roger Raber, President & CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors of USA
Robert E Bostrom, Managing Partner, Winston & Strawn, New York
George Dallas, Global Practice Leader for Governance Services, Standard & Poor, UK
Aiyana Maleki, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Jane Fiona Cumming, Article 13, UK
Dr Giovanni D'Orio, University of Calabria, Italy
Dr Jiri Mezulanik, Vice-dean for International Relations, & Michaela Roubicova School of Business Administration, Silesian University, Karvina, Czech Republic
   
15.15 - 15.30 Tea
   
15.30 – 16.45 Plenary - 10
   
  Driving Responsible Governance - Making It Happen
   
  Tom Spencer, Member European Parliament, Belgium
Dr Julian Franks
, Professor of Finance, London Business School
Dr Sue Konzelmann, Programme Director, MSc Corporate Governance and Ethics, Birkbeck College
Lynn McGregor, Author "Human Face of Corporate Governance"
Paola Gutierrez V, Corporate Governance Project, Colombia
Arif Khurshed, Susanne Espenlaub, Thitima Sitthipongpanich Manchester School of Accounting and Finance, University of Manchester
Dr Tatyana Boikova, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration, Latvia
 
 16.45 - 18.00 aPleanary 11 - Closing Session
  Corporate Governance- The Road Ahead
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  G N Bajpai, Chairman, Security Exchange Board of India (Chair)
Professor Viviane de Beaufort, Doctor in EEC law, ESSEC Business School, France
Vindel Kerr, Management Institute for National Development (MIND), Jamaica
Dr Ho Khai Leong, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Esser Gungor, Specialist, Capital Markets Board, Turkey
J. C. Khurana,
Director General, Centre for Corporate Governance, India

* Confirmation Awaited

** Programme subject to change
Last Updated 1st April 2004