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ICGN Annual Conference 2005

"Constructive dialogue to promote long term value"
Updated: 25 July 2008

Posted here are speeches, presentations, press releases and other documents relating to this conference
For registered delegates and ICGN members, the whole conference can now be viewed online. ICGN members can obtain access through the Members' area. Delegates to the Conference who are not members and who would like to view the conference video should contact the ICGN Secretariat.
Click here to see some photographs taken during the Conference
Press Releases
ICGN elects new Board 12 July 2005
Corporate Laws Committee Releases Discussion Paper on Director Voting Committee on Corporate Law press release of 22 June 2005
Speeches and Speakers' Notes
Corporate Governance – The Public Policy Perspective Notes for remarks by the Honourable Don Johnston, Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United States (issued but not delivered)
The Public Policy Perspective of OECD’s Efforts to Promote Good Corporate Governance Remarks by Bill Witherell, Director for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, OECD
The globalisation of corporate governance regulation by Dr Jonathan Charkham CBE, Director, Mizuho International, Japan
Keynote address by Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services (delivered by Ian Barber, Acting Head of Representation at the European Commission Representation in the UK, on behalf of the Commissioner)
Supporting Documentation
A New Agenda for the ICGN by Adrian Cadbury and Ira Millstein
Corporate Governance Assessment: Report on Top 100 Chinese Listed Companies in 2004 Chinese Center for Corporate Governance Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (For the hot topic workshop: Asia: drivers for change)
Discussion Paper on Voting by Shareholders for the Election of Directors Committee on Corporate Laws of the Section of Business Law of the American Bar Association (For the speech by the Honourable. E. Norman Veasey, Former Chief Justice Delaware, Chairman of the American Bar Association Commercial Law Committee, United States)
Conference Documentation
2005 Conference Magazine
ICGN 2005 Yearbook Please note that this is a very large document (4.7MBytes) and so might take some time to download.
Conference Programme
2005 Conference Programme