click menu to expandSite last updated: 4 April, 2014RSSNews feed |ECGIAnnual Lecture - How good is badcorporate governance?ECGI'sAnnual Lecture this year will begiven by ECGI Fellow, ProfessorErnst-Ludwig von Thadden,Rector and Professor of Economicsand Finance at the University ofMannheim.  Thelecture, which is open to membersof the general public, will takeplace in Brussels at 11.00 on Tuesday29 April. See:The Programme of eventsOnline (mandatory) registrationDirections to the venueECGI members please note that they should register their attendance preference alongside that for the General Assembly (see below) from within the Members' areaECGI's 2014 General AssemblyThe ECGI General Assembly will take place on Tuesday, 29th April at the Royal Academy of Belgium, Palais des Académies, Brussels starting at  09.00. The Annual Lecture (see above) will follow on immediately after the General Assembly. The Annual Working Paper prize-giving ceremony will follow the lecture.For ECGI members,see in the Members' area of this website:The full programmeAgendaand accompanying papersOnline registrationProxy nomination facilityDirections to the venueThese links require a password. Members should email christine.miller@ecgi.org if they need a reminder of the security detailsJörgenHolmquistItis with the deepest regret andsadness that we report the untimelydeath of our Chairman, JörgenHolmquist, last Friday whilst skiingin the United States. Jörgensucceeded Eddy Wymeersch as Chairmanof the ECGI in June 2012. In thelast 18 months, he presided overour Board with wisdom and insightduring a period when the Instituteenhanced its reputation as a world-classacademic institution. Under hisleadership, the ECGI realised somenotable milestones, including theformation of the European CorporateGovernance Research Foundation,the inauguration of the GlobalCorporate Governance Colloquiaand the development of a constructivedialogue between the European Unionand Asia. All his friends and colleaguesat the ECGI will miss his charmand his deft diplomatic guidanceof our Institute.ShareholderPowerThesecond of two conferences relatingto the creation of a ResearchHandbook on Shareholder Power  tookplace at NUS Law School, BukitTimah Campus, Singapore on 6-7March 2014. The organisers, theNational University of SingaporeFaculty of Law and the VanderbiltLaw School with the ECGI,invited a number of academicsto author chapters of the handbook.These authors presented theirchapters and received feedbackfrom their fellow authors at thisevent.See:Backgroundto this projectEditorsand authorsProjectpartnersProgrammefor the Singapore conferenceECGILaw & Finance SeminarsTheECGI has instituted a new seriesof day-long academic seminarswhere ECGI Research Members presenttheir recent work on corporategovernance topics appropriate
for an EU-wide audience.  These
seminars  take place at the
Royal Academy of Belgium (L’Académie
royale de Belgique) in Brussels.  Attenda