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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
APPRAISED
UNECE Working Party on Industry and Enterprise Development
Takes a Look at Corporate Governance in
Light of Recent Corporate Scandals
Palais des Nations (Conference Room VII), Geneva
3.15 p.m., 12 February 2004
Geneva, 11 February 2004 - In response
to the stream of recent corporate scandals,
including Enron, Worldcom and Parmalat and
their damaging economic and financial consequences,
the UNECE Working Party on Industry and
Enterprise Development will host a Round
Table on Pressing Corporate Governance Issues
during its annual session on Thursday, 12
February beginning at 3:15 p.m. in Room
VII of the Palais des Nations. The aim of
the Round Table is to review the pressing
corporate governance issues as well as different
approaches in addressing causes and consequences
of recent corporate scandals in a market-oriented
framework. Both responses on the corporate
level as well as possible government measures
including international coordination will
be discussed. Panellists and delegates will
be invited to share their views on corporate
governance trends, causes of the recent
corporate failures and their economic and
financial consequences.
The panellists for the Round Table are: Mr. Herbert
G. Buff, Group Compliance Officer & Deputy Chief Legal Officer,
Swiss Reinsurance Company, Zurich, Mr. Adam Codrington, Practice
Leader, Corporate Governance and D&O Insurances, Aon, London, and Mr.
Felix Horber, Head of Corporate Governance, Group Legal Services,
UBS, Zurich.
For more information, please contact:
| Mr. Iouri Adjoubei
Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Palais des Nations, room 429-2
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Telephone: +41(0)22 917 24 88 / 19 64
Telefax: +41(0)22 917 01 78
E-mail: [email protected]
|
Ms. Marina Dolgova
Industrial Restructuring, Energy and Enterprise Development Division
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Palais des Nations, room 429-2
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Telephone: +41(0)22 917 19 64
Telefax: +41(0)22 917 01 78
E-mail: [email protected] |
Web site: http://www.unece.org/ie/wp8/main.html