Panel Discussion II: The Global Rebalancing of Corporate Governance Norms (GCGC 2026)

This panel discussion took place at the 2026 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium, held on 12–13 June 2026 at the National University of Singapore.

The panel was moderated by Jennifer Hill of Monash University and ECGI. Panelists were Joon Hyug Chung of Seoul National University, Jeffrey N. Gordon of Columbia Law School and ECGI, and Jeanne Stampe, Policy Lead for Active Ownership at Norges Bank Investment Management.

The panel addressed a shift away from decades of assumed convergence toward what Mark Carney has called "variable geometry," a geopolitical fragmentation replacing global integration. Jennifer Hill (Monash University, ECGI) grounded the discussion in Gordon's recent chapter distinguishing two axes of corporate law: the familiar internal governance axis, and an emerging "externalities governance" axis, exemplified by climate disclosure, where divergence may follow competing Brussels, Washington, or Beijing models. The panel compared how the US, Europe, and Asia are moving in different, sometimes opposite, directions along both.