Events

Corporate Governance Dispute Resolution Practice Group Meeting – Key Takeaways and Next Steps

Practitioners discussed how to advance the use of consensus-based approaches for corporate governance dispute resolution at an April 23, 2012 meeting in London. more...

Reporting on Corporate Governance: An Interactive Media Workshop

Journalists from Bangladesh and Pakistan attended a training workshop in Dhaka on April 16–18, 2012. The event piloted the upcoming training manual, Who is Running the Company: A Guide to Reporting on Corporate Governance. more...

Launch of the Knowledge Exchange Network to Enhance Corporate Governance in Europe and Central Asia

March 6, 2012, Baku, Azerbaijan. IFC and the Global Corporate Governance Forum have helped launch a knowledge exchange network across Europe and Central Asia designed to enhance corporate governance standards and help companies improve their performance. more...

Global Ethics Forum 2012: Seeds for Successful Transformation 2012: the Value of Values in Responsible Business

June 28 -  30, Geneva, Switzerland. Registration is now open. more...

Key Corporate Governance Issues in Emerging Markets - Theory and Practical Execution

June 11-12, 2012. Leipzig, Germany. The conference will bringing together senior representatives from academia, developing institutions, companies and investors to provide a future-oriented assessment of the governance situations in three important regions of the world - Africa, Asia and Southern Europe. more...

Companies Circle: “Practical and Hands-On” Guidance from Private Sector Leaders

The Latin American Companies Circle held its sixth annual meeting in November in Lima, Peru. Participants reviewed two draft reports (on annual general meeting practices and on board evaluations), discussed case studies of good-practice corporate governance reforms by its members, and set the 2012 agenda. more...

Nigeria: Innovative Approach to Developing Trainers for the Banking Sector

Nigeria is the first country to pilot the “mentored” approach to the Forum’s Board Leadership Training program. more...

Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable: Key Takeaways

The Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance met in Lima, Peru on 29-30 November, 2011, bringing together policy-makers, regulators, stock exchanges, corporate governance institutes and private sector stakeholders from 16 countries. more...

Forum's Corporate Governance Center for Banks in Nigeria Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC) is a not-for-profit professional services organization established in 1981. The Forum and IFC’s Nigeria Corporate Governance Banking Program have partnered with FITC for the rolling out of the Governing Banks Supplement in Nigeria. A localized corporate governance curriculum targeted at bank directors is being developed. more...

Shareholder Engagement: What is ‘Appropriate’?

December 15, 2011. A free all-day conference under the auspices of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Commission, organized by the European Corporate Governance Institute and the Columbia Law School. Washington DC, USA. more...

Corporate Governance: Perennial Issues? New Ideas. XI European Corporate Governance Conference.

November 15, 2011. Sheraton Hotel, Warsaw. more...

International Conference on Corporate Governance and Sustainability

September 15-17, 2011, Sugar Beach Resort, Mauritius. more...

Corporate Governance of Banks - Second High Level Policy Meeting for Banks and Regulators from Southeast Europe

London, June 16, 2011 more...

The International Corporate Governance Network’s 2011 Annual Conference

September 12 – 14, 2011, Paris, France. The Global Corporate Governance Forum is one of the official partners of the Conference. Hosted by Europlace. more...

Board Leadership Training of Trainers for Eurasia Region

IFC and the Global Corporate Governance Forum are training corporate governance trainers from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkey and Ukraine. more...

Enhancing Transparency and Fighting Corruption - Fifth Corporate Sustainability Forum

June 20– 21, 2011, Four Seasons - Nile Plaza, Cairo, Egypt. The event will focus on four areas in corporate sustainability agenda – Good governance, labor rights, fighting corruption and doing business with the poor. more...

Third International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets

May 28-29, 2011, Seoul, Korea. The conference brought together researchers from around the world investigating the impact of corporate governance on firm performance and economic development, and the role of legal, economic and political institutions in shaping corporate governance systems in emerging markets. more...

Launch of the Financial Markets Recovery Project in Bangladesh, Followed by the Corporate Governance Training of Trainers Program for the Banking Sector in South Asia

March 3-6, 2011, Dhaka, Bangladesh. more...

Third Strategic Regional Corporate Governance and Responsibility (CGR) Forum

June 12-14, 2011, Amman, Jordan. The CGR Forum, an ongoing engagement by Schema, aims to identify, address and enable development in the areas of Corporate Governance, Sustainability, and Corporate Social Responsibility. more...

4th Meeting of the Latin American Institutes of Corporate Governance (IGCLA.net)

Bogota, Colombia, February 23, 2011 more...