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The ICGN was founded in 1995 which has evolved into a global membership organisation of around 450 leaders in corporate governance.
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The ICGN Chairman, Peter Montagnon and Executive Director, Carl Rosen, are key spokespersons for the ICGN. Their latest biographies are available below.
ICGN in the News
The recent crisis has underlined the emergence of Asia as a global economic powerhouse. Several dynamic economies in the region are generating growth outcomes...
World leaders jittery over Europe’s continuing debt woes honing in on ballooning deficits caused by recession bailouts.
One of Bay Street’s top advocates of corporate governance says some issues, like say on pay, should be left solely to board members
Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty says Canada must pay the substantial cost of hosting the G20 and G8 summits this month if the country...
Efforts by regulators to control runaway banker compensation have been mostly unsuccessful, said the head of an association representing some of the world's largest...
Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Monday that Canada must set an example to debt-laden European countries by dealing with its own budgetary deficit,...
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the Group of 20 countries are seeking to accelerate financial reforms to reduce uncertainty for the banking industry.
The timetable for reforming the financial system should be accellerated, said Jim Flaherty, the Finance Minister. If the world's leading economies are to prevent...
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday that finance ministers and central bankers of the world's major economies are concerned about European countries...
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says Canada must pay the cost of the G20 and G8 summits if the country is to play a leading...
It is time for major economies to quickly work out rules that will force banks to carry higher capital levels, and forget about schemes...
Operations in Canada's oilsands are "so fundamentally different" from offshore drilling that the a catastrophe like the ongoing Gulf oil spill disaster isn't a...
The takeover of Cadbury has stirred up a lot of feeling in the UK. The long-running saga, which ended with Kraft paying £11.7 billion...
GLOBAL - A global pressure group has called for non-executive directors to be denied access to retirement benefits usually granted to members of the...
The world’s foremost leaders in corporate governance will gather in Toronto, Canada from 7 – 9 June 2010 at the International Corporate Governance Network’s...
Robeco is introducing a comprehensive policy on responsible investing. In future, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors will integrally be taken into account when...
Investors need to be aware that they cannot exercise their ownership rights with certain types of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to the International Corporate...
Readers will not have failed to notice that there has been a major Anglo-French clash in recent weeks about the appointment of the new...
Sir you’ve just completed a ten-month course in NIPSS, a course that so many people really desire to come for and I am sure...
The increasing use of derivatives by passive investors undermines the functioning of a healthy corporate governance in business. That said Carl Rosen, head of International...
Corporate governance experts are concerned that the increasing use of derivatives by passive investors may carry risks for a healthy corporate market. Carl Rosén, executive...
The “new” SEC under Chairman Mary Schapiro is certainly being extra careful about instituting meaningful investor reform measures following the financial crisis. In the past...
As the International Corporate Governance Network held its annual conference this week, its new executive director, Carl Rosen, spoke with Amanda White about the...
Sen. Chuck Schumer's Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009 actually hits the mark, which Martin Lipton, Jay W. Lorsch and Theodore N. Mirvis...
The winds of change that brought President Barack Obama into office will soon blow through US boardrooms. Unfortunately, executives are not welcoming this...
ICGN appoints Carl Rosen as its new Executive Director replacing Anne Simpson who will join CalPERS as senior portfolio manager for corporate governance. “ICGN...
Anne Simpson comments on the rising trend of activist funds: ”These funds have been set up in other markets ... They have gone very...
Frank Curtiss highlights ICGN Guidance on Non-financial Business Reporting in the European Pension Funds Newsletter (pages 17 & 18) emphasising the need for greater...
Shareholders should have to re-elect each members of the board every year says Anne Simpson in a recent article ...
The rules of the game for the division of labour between government and the market are being rewritten says Anne Simpson in a recent...
More integration of non-financial business information in financial statements is needed to enable well-informed investment decision-making, the International Corporate Governance Network says. ...
Anne Simpson says the CFOs job isnt getting easier in a recent article in CFO Europe Magazine ....more
Peter Montagnon Chairman of the ICGN, stresses that the argument for shareholder rights is now stronger than ever, but the ICGN also firmly believes...
ICGN recommends that pension funds should insist fund managers put sufficient resource into governance that delivers long term value. ...
ICGN calls on world leaders to include strengthened corporate governance as part of a package of measures aimed at restoring confidence in the markets....
The ICGN calls for greater transparency in equity and derivatives transactions ahead of a G-20 summit aimed to restore confidence in global financial markets....
Peter Montagnon, ICGN Chairman, calls for more transparency in Germany re Porsche’s holdings in Volkswagen ...
The ICGN calls for the enhancement of shareholders rights, including the election of directors as an important step to building more effective risk management....
ICGN says Governments should resist placing excessive restrictions on companies activities and consider giving shareholders greater powers to quiz managements ...
The ICGN Executive Director, Anne Simpson, asks “if the chain of accountability has been broken” at the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators 2008...
As they rescue battered financial institutions, an unprecedented number of countries simultaneously are trying to curb runaway executive pay. The efforts could change pay...
Karl Marx was wrong about many things, but in 1893 he provided as good an account of today's financial implosion as any living commentator...
New protections for auditors mean the European Commission must drop its "piecemeal" approach to the subject and step up its efforts to improve quality...
Companies that do not comply with high standards of good governance are ripe for short-selling, one of the most successful hedge fund investors in...
Key quote: Dallas encourages sovereign wealth funds to join the International Corporate Governance Network, an association of institutional investors that could help these funds...