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Post-Enron reforms panel topic April 29 3:57 p.m., April 23, 2004--The collapse of Enron Corporation and resulting corporate governance reforms will be discussed when some of the nations leading corporate governance experts visit the University of Delawares Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics for a panel discussion on Thursday morning, April 29. The discussion is part of an undergraduate course offered by Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, who himself is a prominent expert in the field. The session will meet from 9:30-10:45 a.m. in 125 Alfred Lerner Hall. Members of the campus community and the public are invited to attend, and if interested should call the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at 831-6157. Panelists include William Crist, former chairman of the California Public Employees Retirement System; Larry Harris, chief economist for the Securities and Exchange Commission; Justice Jack Jacobs of the Delaware Supreme Court; Bob May, interim chief executive officer of HealthSouth; Carl McCall, former comptroller of the State of New York; and Shaun OMalley, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., or Freddie Mac. The role of the dissident director will be the topic of the final discussion in the series, scheduled Tuesday, May 11. Panelists for that discussion include R. Franklin Balotti, director of the law firm Richards Layton & Finger; George Cloutier, chief executive officer of American Management Systems; William Crowley, president and chief operating officers of ESL Investments; Stanley Gold, president and chief executive officer of Shamrock Holdings; David Ikenberry, professor of finance and chair of the department and the University of Illinois; Vice Chancellor Stephen Lamb of the Delaware Court of Chancery; Joann Lublin, journalist with the Wall Street Journal; Steve Odland, chief executive officer of AutoZone and chair of the Business Roundtables Corporate Governance Committee; and Ralph Whitworth, founder of Relational Investors LLC. Article by Neil Thomas To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |