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Leading figures in corporate governance to speak at UD 10:47 a.m., Oct. 23, 2003--The next in a series of panel discussions featuring some of the nation’s leading figures in important corporate governance issues will be held Tuesday, Oct. 28, by the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. The discussions are part of an undergraduate finance 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 Oct. 28 session, which is on audit committee reform, will meet from 9:30-10:45 a.m. in 126 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. The session will feature Ray Bromark, partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers; Richard Cavanaugh, president and chief executive officer of The Conference Board; R. William Ide, partner of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and former president of the American Bar Association; John Noble, vice chancellor of the Court of Chancery; Julian Oettinger, general counsel and corporate secretary for Walgreen Co.; Larry Rittenberg, Ernst and Young Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin; and Anil Shivdasani, Wachovia Distinguished Professor and chair of finance at the University of North Carolina. A session on corporate governance guidelines scheduled Nov. 6 will feature Richard Bernard, executive vice president and general counsel of the New York Stock Exchange; William Casazza, vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for Aetna; William Cotter, senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for AIG; Jamie Heard, chief executive officer of Institutional Shareholder Services; Jack Jacobs, justice of the Delaware Supreme Court; Jeff Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale University School of Management; and Ralph Walking, professor of finance at Ohio State University. Elson said he is particularly anticipating the Nov. 18 session, which will bring together commissioners from the Securities and Exchange Commission and judges from the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court, which essentially oversee the nation’s corporate law, to discuss shareholder access to the company proxy. “This should be a real treat,” Elson said of the session, which will be attended by SEC Commissioners Paul Atkins and Harvey Goldschmidt, Delaware Supreme Court Justices Jack Jacobs and E. Norman Veasey and Court of Chancery Vice Chancellors Leo Strine and Stephen Lamb. Also on the panel will be Larry Hamermesh, director of the Widener University Institute of Delaware Corporate Law; John Olson, senior partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Eric Roiter, senior vice president and general counsel of Fidelity Management & Research Co.; John Wilcox, vice chairperson of Georgeson Shareholder Communications; and Ann Yerger, director of council research for the Council of Institutional Investors. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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