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ICGN – DELAWARE DINNER & CONFERENCE
“U.S. Corporate Governance Reforms – A Global Perspective”
Hotel duPont
Wilmington, Delaware

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Thursday, 21 October 2004
18.00 Reception
19.00 Dinner
Keynote speaker: SEC Commissioner Roel Campos

Friday, 22 October 2004
07:30 Registration
08:15 Welcome
Honorable Ruth Ann Minner, Governor, State of Delaware
Alastair Ross Goobey – Chair, ICGN
08.30 Regulation or Engagement? – Which is the Best Model for Governance Reform?
Moderator: John Wilcox, Georgeson Shareholder Communications Inc.
Panelists: Delaware Supreme Court Justice Henry duPont Ridgley; Delaware Chancellor William B. Chandler; Peter Butler, Hermes CEO (UK); Lucian Bebchuk, Harvard Law Professor; Alan Beller, director of SEC Division of Corporation Finance (tbc)
09.30 Can Institutions Really Act as Owners?
Moderator: Peter Clapman, TIAA-CREF
Panelists: Delaware Vice Chancellor Stephen Lamb; Jack Bogle (Vanguard); Ralph Whitworth (Relational Investors); Geert Raaijmakers (Netherlands); Eric Roiter (Fidelity)
10.30 Break
10.45 Can Directors Really Represent Shareholders?
Moderator: Peggy Foran, Pfizer
Panelists: Delaware Vice Chancellor Leo Strine; Gretchen Morgenson (NY Times); David Shedlarz, Pfizer CFO and director, Pitney Bowes; Joe Grundfest, former SEC commissioner (tbc)
12.00 Friday Luncheon
Keynote Speaker - Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice Myron T. Steele
13.30 Can Governance Practice Keep up with Policy?
Moderator: Richard Koppes, former CalPERS general counsel
Panelists: Delaware Vice Chancellor Donald Parsons, Jr.; Linda Crompton, CEO, IRRC; Alan MacDougall, PIRC, UK; Cyndi Richson, Ohio PERS; Pattie Dunn, Barclay's Global Investors
14.30 Break
14.45 Executive Renumeration, the Intractable Governance Dilemma?
Moderator: Charles Elson, University of Delaware
Panelists: Former Delaware Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey; Delaware Supreme Court Justice Jack Jacobs; Damon Silvers, AFL- CIO; Beth Young, The Corporate Library; John ( Jack) Krol, retired CEO and chair, DuPont.
15.45 A Federal Model of International Governance?
Moderator: Stephen Davis, Global Proxy Watch
Panelists: Delaware Supreme Court Justice Randy Holland; Sir Graeme Davis, Vice-Chancellor, University of London and chair, Universities Superannuation Scheme (UK); Ken Georgetti, president of the Canadian Labour Congress and chair, Committee for International Cooperation on Workers’ Capital; Holly Gregory, Weil Gotshal & Manges, authored the report to the European Commission on Corporate Governance Codes; Jaap Winter, DeBrauw Blackstone Westbroek and chair, European Commission panels on governance, takeover regulation and share voting.
16.45 Summary & Conclusion