Stewardship

Dr. Dionysia Katelouzou (Kings College London), Prof. Hanne Birkmose (Aarhus University), Prof. Giovanni Strampelli (Bocconi University), Dr Natania Locke (Swinburne University of Technology), Mr. Tim Bowley (Johnson Winter & Slattery), Ms. Claudia Chapman (Financial Reporting Council), Prof. Brian Cheffins (University of Cambridge), Prof. Umakanth Varottil (National University of Singapore), Prof. Andrew Jen-Guang Lin (National Taiwan University) and Prof. David Donald (Chinese University of Hong Kong) discuss the meaning of stewardship at the "Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference" in King’s College London. More information from this conference can be found here: https://ecgi.global/content/global-shareholder-stewardship-conference

Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard Law School) presented his paper on Index Fund Stewardship at the "Rethinking Stewardship" conference that took place on 23/10/2020 online.

Moderator: Eva Micheler (London School of Economics)

Ms. Sarah Wilson (Manifest), Ms. Claudia Chapman (Financial Reporting Council), Ms. Rebecca Christie (Bruegel), Prof. David Donald (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Ms. Aleksandra Palinska (European Fund & Asset Management Association) discuss stewardship and sustainable finance, at the "Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference" in King’s College London. More information from this conference can be found here: https://ecgi.global/content/global-shareholder-stewardship-conference

Moderator: Luca Enriques (University of Oxford and ECGI)

Dan Puchniak (National University of Singapore) presented his paper on 'The False Hope of Stewardship in the Context of Controlling Shareholders: Making Sense Out of the Global Transplant of a Legal Misfit' and Dionysia Katelouzou (Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London) presented her paper on 'Hedge Fund Activism and Shareholder Stewardship: An Automated Content Analysis of the Rhetoric of Stewardship' at the "Rethinking Stewardship" conference that took place on 23/10/2020 online.

Jeffrey Gordon (Colombia Law School) presented his paper on Systematic Stewardship at the "Rethinking Stewardship" conference that took place on 23/10/2020 online.

Prof. Julian Franks (London Business School) presents his paper on "Corporate governance through voice and exit" at the "Corporate Governance And Ownership With Diverse Shareholders" conference at IESE Business School, Barcelona. Discussion of the paper is then presented by Prof. Krishna Palepu (Harvard Business School). The full paper and slides from this presentation can be downloaded here: ecgi.global/content/corporate-governance-and-ownership-diverse-shareholders#!event-programme

Moderator: Paul Davies (University of Oxford and ECGI)

Prof. Christoph Van der Elst (Gent University, Tilburg University), Mr. David Frick (Nestlé S.A.), Mr. Toshitake Inoue (Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division Planning and Markets Bureau Financial Services Agency, Government of Japan), Prof. Konstantinos Sergakis (University of Glasgow), Mr. Andy Jones (Hermes Investment Management) and Prof. Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles, ECGI) discuss the future of stewardship at the "Global Shareholder Stewardship Conference" in King’s College London. More information from this conference can be found here: https://ecgi.global/content/global-shareholder-stewardship-conference