Program ecoDa session October 2012 - ILA

ecoDa
The European Voice of Directors
2 Days of Professional
Development for European Directors
Brussels, 9-10 October 2012
New Governance
Challenges for Board
Members in Europe
Benchmarking, networking
and updating
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‘Are you a board
member of a company that is active across
Europe?”’
‘Would you like a better understanding of the
workings of European boards and corporate
governance systems?’
ecoDa has developed a European module for directors and supervisory board members
seeking to gain a European perspective on board functioning and corporate governance.
The training programme is targeted at directors with a cross-border mandate in their
board activities or looking for such a mandate. Anyone seeking to update their
knowledge of recent EU policy developments in the field of corporate governance will
also benefit from the module.
As result of global economic forces, modern boards are becoming increasingly diverse in
their composition and business perspectives. For companies operating across Europe,
directors and supervisory board member must rapidly gain an understanding of
unfamiliar corporate governance systems, regulations, and best practices. They also
need an overview of the rapidly changing and often complex EU policy debate on
corporate governance.
ecoDa’s programme promotes the Europeanization of the boardroom. It allows
participants to benchmark their own board and governance practices with those of
similar companies in other European countries. It offers an expert briefing on significant
policy issues in European corporate governance (including regulatory developments).
Throughout the module, participants are provided with the information and
know-how that will be essential in fulfilling a cross-border board mandate.
A valuable benefit of the programme is the chance to become part of a unique ecoDa
professional network consisting of individuals with a distinctive interest and expertise
in pan-European corporate governance and board functioning.
Roger Barker
Chairman of ecoDa’s Education Committee
Program’s Director
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‘The program designed by ecoDa meets the need of all company
directors throughout Europe to come to grasp with the European
legislative and regulatory mechanisms.’
Patrick Zurstrassen
ecoDa Chairman (Board member, ILA - Institut Luxembourgeois des
Administrateurs )
‘The potential impact of director training on board behaviour and
director
professionalism cannot be underestimated. It is not less important
than
efforts to establish an effective regulatory framework for boards
through
corporate governance codes and other legislative measures. Director
training should be given a high priority in efforts to improve the overall
performance and legitimacy of corporate governance.’
Juan Alvarez-Vijande
ecoDa Honorary Chairman (Executive Director, IC-A - Instituto Consejeros -
Administradores)
Less than rules and processes, ethics and actors’ behaviour really
matter for governance’s quality.’
Daniel Lebègue
ecoDa Honorary Chairman (President, IFA - Institut français des
administrateurs )
‘European diversity also reflects in corporate governance. ecoDa’s
programme module will bring you the understanding of
differences and provide you with the knowledge base you can
further built on as board member.’
Irena Prijovic
ecoDa Board Member (Secretary General, Slovenian Directors'
Association)
“Good corporate governance is about 'intellectual honesty' and not just
sticking to rules and regulations. Capital flowed towards companies that
practiced this type of good governance“- Mervyn King (Chairman: King
Report)
Maarit Aarni-Sirvio
ecoDa Board Member (Secretary General, The Finnish Association of
Professional Board Members, Hallitusammattilaiset)
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‘Board and director professionalism has never been more important.
ecoDa’s European module offers a unique chance to adapt the
knowledge and experience of board members gained at National level to
the European level’
Simon Walker
ecoDa Board Member (Director General, the Institute of Directors, IoD)
‘The ecoDa program fills an important gap in many director education
programmes, by focusing the attention on the European governance
scenery and the International Board practices. In an International
context and given the important impetus of the European Commission
as to setting the principles of corporate governance, such expansion
on the European territory is more than welcome’.
Lutgart Van den Berghe
ecoDa Board member (Executive Director of GUBERNA—l’Institut des Administrateurs /
Het Instituut voor Bestuurders)
‘The ecoDA training program is a most welcome initiative to
professionalize the role of BoD in European companies. It also gives a
unique opportunity for discussions and sharing of best practice,
completely different from single seminars and conferences within the
field. The training sessions will provide better insight and
understanding of the BoD’s role and composition of the Board.’
Turid Solvang
ecoDa Board member (Managing Director of the Norwegian Institute of
Directors)
Lars-Erik Forsgardh
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Program’s Objectives
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To adapt the knowledge and experience of
board members gained at National level to
the European level, and to provide insight into
the latest European developments in Corporate
Governance
To create a European network of individual
board members and to develop a
European pool of board members
To provide the skillset that will assist board
members in winning board mandates in other
European countries.
To exchange best European board practices
Program’s Contents
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Understanding National differences in terms
of Corporate Governance, and the functions
and duties of board members in differing
European countries
Benefiting from the feedback and know-how of
board members with significant
experience of cross-border board
mandates in Europe
Gaining an overview of the EU decisionmaking
process, particularly in relation to
corporate governance
Updating participants on recent European
developments in Corporate Governance.
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The programme
Day 1
Welcoming coffee at the Thon Hotel EU, rue de la loi, 75
8:30 Welcoming speech Patrick Zurstrassen, Chairman of
ecoDa
Roger Barker, Chairman of ecoDa’s
Education Committee
8:35 Introduction: overview of
corporate governance diversity in
the EU
Abigail Levrau, Member of the
Management Committee of GUBERNA
8:45 Company ownership : The
contrasting influence of
controlling shareholders and
institutional investors in
Europe—Practical examples and
exchanges with the course
participants
10:00 Board structure :The functioning
of one and two tier board
systems in European
companies—Practical examples and
exchanges with the course
participants
11:15 Coffee break
Roger Barker, Head of Corporate
Governance of the Institute of
Directors - IoD and Senior Advisor to
the Board of ecoDa
To be confirmed
11:45 The Nordic Model: the impact of
board membership on European
board behaviour – Practical
examples and exchanges with the
course participants
Per Lekvall, Founding Partner,
Boardroom Consulting AB
Board member, Swedish Corporate
Governance Board
13:00 Buffet Lunch
14:45 The Italian model: a distinct
model of corporate governance
Paola Schwitzer, NedCommunity
16.00 Case study: How boards from
two different countries can
handle similar issues? The impact
of internal and external business
environments on board decisionmaking.
Frank Dangeard, Managing Partner,
Harcourt
18:00 Wrap-up session Jean Coroller, Director of IFA
certification programme
19.30 Dinner
CG in Eastern European countries :
perspectives from Slovenia
Irena Prijovic, Secretary General of
the Slovenian Directors’ Association
(to be confirmed)
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Welcoming coffee
Day
Day 2 2
8.45 Introductory remarks
Béatrice Richez-Baum, Secretary
General of ecoDa
Presentation of the pending key
topics at the EU level
9.45 Simulation of real boardrooms on
the basis of a case study
circulated beforehand
Matthias Schmidt-Gerdts, DG
Internal Market, European
Commission (to be confirmed)
Philippe Haspeslagh, Dean of
Vlerick Business School (to be
confirmed)
FACILITATORS:
Roger Barker, Head of corporate
Governance of the Institute of
Directors, IoD and Senior Advisor to
the Board of ecoDa
Jean Coroller, Director of IFA
certification programme
Abigail Levrau, member of the
Management Committee of GUBERNA
12:45 Summary of the discussion Philippe Haspeslagh, Dean of
Vlerick Business School (to be
confirmed)
13.00 Lunch
15.00 Challenges, benefits and risks of
being a Director in Europe – panel
discussion
ICGN (to be confirmed)
Patrick Zurstrassen, Chairman of
ecoDa, Independent Director
Jérôme Wigny, Elvinger Hoss &
Prussen, Luxembourg (to be
confirmed)
17:00 European Market for
Directorships
Dominic Schofield, Senior Client
Partner, Korn/Ferry Whitehead Mann
18.00 Closing session - Synthesis Roger Barker, Chairman of ecoDa’s
Education Committee
18:15 End of the programme
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BARKER, Roger
Dr. Roger Barker has
been Head of Corporate
Governance at the
Institute of Directors (UK)
since 2008.
Dr. Barker sits on
advisory boards at a
number of organisations,
including the European
Confederation
of
Directors’ Associations
(ecoDa) and the Institute
of Chartered Accountants
in England and Wales
(ICAEW). He is a visiting lecturer at the Said
Business School (University of Oxford), ESSEC
(Paris), UCL (London) and the Ministry of
Defence (UK), and a former adviser to the EU
Economic and Social Committee in Brussels.
Dr. Barker’s recent book - Corporate
Governance, Competition, and Political Parties:
Explaining Corporate Governance Change in
Europe – was published by Oxford University
Press in January 2010. He is also the author
(with Dr. Neville Bain) of the IoD’s main guide
to the role of the board, The Effective Board:
Building Individual and Board Success, which
was published by Kogan Page in September
2010.
Dr. Barker spent the first part of his career in
various senior roles in investment banking in
London and Switzerland. He is the holder of a
doctorate on corporate governance from
Oxford University, where he was a Lecturer at
Merton College, and has degrees in economics,
finance and political science from the
universities of Cambridge, Southampton and
Cardiff.
COROLLER, Jean
Jean Coroller is the Director
of Certification of Board
Members with IFA (the
French Institute of
Directors). He launched this
initiative in late 2010 in
France in partnership with
Sciences Po Executive
Education, a top university.
He has over 39 years of experience developing
an extensive expertise in the following areas:
corporate governance best practices and
efficiency / effectiveness of boards, audit and
risk committees, topics specific to the
management of multinational companies,
notably with the US and European countries.
Formerly a senior partner with Ernst & Young
in Paris covering Continental Western Europe,
he has over the years been responsible for
developing and promoting Corporate
Governance services and best practices on the
behalf of Ernst & Young, being an active
representative with the IFA Board and other
working groups such the Education and
International Commissions. He was a Board
Member with AmCham, the American Chamber
of Commerce in France. He embraced a
comprehensive spectrum in the advisory world,
assisting C-suite management and Boards of
large International corporations achieve a
sustainable growth in line with the Board
strategic objectives.
Jean Coroller is also the President of the HEC
Alumni Management Division which
encompasses the areas of Strategy,
Governance and HR. He is a member of the
French Institute of Internal Auditors and is
involved with BREA (Global Board of Research
and Education Advisors) set up by the IIA (the
Institute of Internal Auditors).
Jean is a graduate from HEC and a fully
qualified chartered accountant.
DANGEARD, Frank
Frank Dangeard is Managing
Partner of Harcourt, Chairman
of Atari and Chairman of the
Strategy Board of PwC(France).
He also serves on the boards of
Crédit Agricole-CIB (France),
Symantec (USA), Telenor
(Norway),
SonaeCom
(Portugal), Moser Baer (India).
He is a member of the Advisory Boards of HEC
in France and of the Harvard Business School
in the US. He has served on the boards of EDF
(Electricité de France), Orange and Wanadoo
(France Télécom Group), and Eutelsat.
From September 2004 to February 2008, he
was Chairman and CEO of Thomson SA. From
September 2002 to September 2004, he was
Deputy CEO of France Telecom. He joined
Thomson multimedia in 1997 as Deputy CEO,
and was appointed Vice Chairman in 2000.
Prior to joining Thomson multimedia, from
1988 to 1997, Frank Dangeard was managing
director of SG Warburg &Co. Ltd.., in London
and Madrid, then Chairman of SG Warburg
France. From 1986 to 1988, he was a lawyer
with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and
London.Frank Dangeard was born in Canada on
February 25, 1958. He graduated from the
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École des Hautes Études Commerciales (Prix
Jouy-Entreprise), the Paris Institut d’Études
Politiques (Lauréat) and from the Harvard Law
School (Fulbright Scholar, HLS Fellow).
HASPESLAGH, Philippe
Professor Philippe
Haspeslagh is Dean of
Vlerick Leuven Gent
Management School
since 2008. Until then
he was the Paul
Desmarais Chaired
Professor of Active
Ownership at INSEAD
and founding director
of its International Directors Forum as well as
its Strategic Issues in Merger and Acquisition
programmes. He holds a doctoral and an MBA
degree from Harvard Business School, where
he was a Baker Scholar, as well as a
Commercial Engineer degree from KU Leuven,
and a Masters in General Management from
Vlerick Management School.
He has held various Directorships and
Chairmanships in listed companies, large family
businesses, private equity and asset
management, including currently Governance
for Owners Ltd, Vandemoortele NV, Quest for
Growth NV, Procuritas AB, Capricorn Venture
Partners, and Dujardin Foods. In the non-profit
sphere he is a Board member of Guberna,
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School,
EABIS, and the Kofi Annan Business School
Foundation.
LEVRAU, Abigail
Dr. Abigail Levrau is Doctor
Assistant and Member of
the
Management
Committee of GUBERNA.
She joined the Institute in
1997. She is responsible
for multiple research
projects and governance
surveys as well as for
board evaluation and
benchmark studies for
listed and non-listed
companies. She frequently acts as lecturer in
training programs on governance (mainly for
executives and directors). Besides, she is
involved in the activities carried out within the
Centre for Public Governance and the Centre
for Growth Companies.
She is member of the European Council for
Corporate Governance, The Conference Board
Europe and of the Benchmarking & Information
Committee, European Confederation of
Directors’ Association. She holds a degree in
Applied Economics and, next, obtained her PhD
with a thesis on ‘board effectiveness’ in 2007.
LEKVALL, Per
Per Lekvall was
Executive Director of
the Swedish
Corporate
Governance Board
from
the
introduction of the
Code in 2005 until May 2011 and is now a
regular member of the same body. Prior to this
he was Head Secretary of the Governmental
Commission on Business Confidence and its
sub-commission The Code Group, which
developed the Swedish Code of Corporate
Governance.
Per Lekvall has extensive experience from a
management career in the Swedish forestry
group SCA and as an advisor to senior
management and boards in major Swedish
companies through his consulting practice
Boardroom Consulting AB. For about ten years
from its start in the mid-1990’s he also served
as CEO of the national body of the Swedish
Academy of Board Directors.
Per Lekvall is a recurrent lecturer at Swedish
universities and business schools and has
published books and articles on inter alia the
role of the board in SME-type companies and
corporate governance in Swedish listed
companies.
PRIJOVIC, Irena
Irena Prijovic works
as Secretary
General
at
Slovenian Directors’
Association in
Ljubljana since
2004. Her career is
professionally
dedicated to Corporate Governance (CG)
through consultancy, research, professional
standards and codes as well as to educational
and certification activities within the
association. She is an author and editor of
different CG publications, manuals and articles.
She is CG lecturer and facilitator licensed by
IFC and Global Corporate Governance Forum
(GCGF). She is a board evaluation consultant.
In 2007 she became a Board member of ecoDa
(European Confederation of Directors’
Association) in Brussels and in 2010 a
supervisory board member of Petrol d.d.
Ljubljana, the largest company in Slovenia.
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SCHMIDT-GERDTS, Matthias
Matthias Schmidt-Gerdts is
a fully qualified lawyer. After
representing the interests of
German
industry
in environmental matters
and in corporate law, he
joined the European
Commission in 2009 as a
civil servant. Currently, he is
a Policy Officer in the Unit
"Corporate governance,
social responsibility" in the Directorate General
Internal Market and Services of the European
Commission. He is responsible for a number of
company law and corporate governance issues
such as the Green Paper on the EU corporate
governance framework, the interconnection of
business registers, the reflection on the future
of EU company law and, more specifically, the
shareholders' rights Directive.
RICHEZ-BAUM, Béatrice
Béatrice Richez-Baum
is a Doctor in Law
specialized in European
Law. She completed
also training at the
Paris Bar School.
Having completed her
Ph. D. thesis on
international Trade and
European Law, in
1999, Béatrice started
her career as a legal
expert for the Paris Chamber of Commerce and
Industry after few experiences in Brussels in
the lobbying sector including the Council of
Bars and Law Societies of Europe and the
European Economic and Social Committee.
Béatrice Richez-Baum was appointed Secretary
General of ecoDa at the creation of the
confederation in March 2005. Since then, she
has been able to raise ecoDa’s profile by
advocating the interests of European board
members, and by developing close working
relationships with the EU institutions and
European peer organisations. She is
responsible of the day-to-day management of
the confederation, the smooth integration of its
members and the organisation of a European
education programme for directors.
She was a lecturer in a Master's Degree in Law,
International Affairs and Management at a
French business school (ESSEC). She publishes
a lot of articles related to European Lobbying
and WTO matters. She drafted the first report
assessing the lobbying exercised by French
companies. She is part of the GNL, a network
of French lobbyists based in Brussels.
SCHOFIELD, Dominic
Dominic Schofield is a Senior
Client Partner in Korn/Ferry
Whitehead Mann’s London
office. He is a member of the
Board & CEO Services Practice.
Mr. Schofield brings to the Firm
a decade’s worth of executive
recruitment experience, having
served as a consultant with
another major international
search firm, focusing on
boardroom and industrial appointments prior to
his current position.
Previously, Mr. Schofield worked for a leading
British political party as a senior aide to the
then party leader and was also deputy head of
research.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Schofield spent five
years in the board practice of a boutique
search firm. Additionally, he once served as an
advisor to the Home Secretary (Interior
Minister) in the British Government between
1995 and 1997.
In the early 1990s, Mr. Schofield lived and
worked in Russia where he was a journalist for
a number of publications and media outlets. He
has also lived in Kazakhstan and the Middle
East.
Dominic sits on the Board of a sizeable
educational charity called Dawliffe Hall
Educational Foundation. He is also a member
of the Advisory Board of leading thought
leadership and communications firm, TLG.
Mr. Schofield earned master of arts degree in
Russian and international relations from the
University of St Andrews.
He is fluent in Russian and has a strong
working knowledge of Italian, Spanish, and
Arabic.
WIGNY, Jérôme
Jérôme Wigny holds a "licence
en droit belge" from the
Université Catholique de
Louvain-la-Neuve. He became
a member of the Luxembourg
Bar in 1994 and worked as an
assistant with Slaughter and
May (London) in 1995. He
became a partner of Elvinger,
Hoss & Prussen in 2001.
He specialises in the field of
investment funds, in particular UCITS and
alternative investment funds.
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He is Co-chairman of the Hedge Fund Working
Group and a member of various other
commissions of the Luxembourg Association of
Investment Funds (ALFI).
He is a regular speaker at conferences and
seminars, in particular in relation to investment
fund-related topics, and is an invited professor
at Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Liège
(Belgium).
ZURSTRASSEN, Patrick
Patrick Zurstrassen is an
independent director. After
nearly 30 years of banking
and fund management with
"Credit Agricole Indosuez"
Group, Patrick Zurstrassen
founded in Luxembourg
"The Directors' Office". He
sits on the board of several
fund management and
investment companies for
group such as Lombard Odier, Barclays,
Pioneer and Goldman Sachs.
Patrick Zurstrassen has been founding
chairman of the Luxembourg Institute of
Directors.
He is a member of ICGN, GCGF, ECGI, IDC
[USA] and NACD [USA]
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First Name
Registration Form
(to be fully completed)
Last Name
Email address
Invoicing address
(+ Country)
Address (+ Country)
Mobile Phone Number
Nationality
Current Position
Mandates as board member
(specify the company, its
size, location and if you are
acting as executive or non
executive)
National certification
program already followed
(if any)
Affiliation to one
ecoDa’s association of
Directors
Please specify any
particular request
concerning your diet
Are you submitted to VAT
Yes 
No
Your VAT Number :
…………………………….
Short biography (Word
document, around 150
words) + Photo
(to be sent apart with this
form)
The seminar will be conducted in English
Please fulfil the above registration form and send it to
Amandine Fivet: amandine.fivet@ecoda.org
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Costs:
Training:
Terms and Conditions
€1100 + VAT (21%) for people not affiliated to one of ecoDa’s member
associations.
€935 + VAT (21%) for people affiliated to one ecoDa’s member
To be paid by bank transfer before 21st September 2012
Cancellations within 15 days before the event will require payment of 50 % of the
training cost
Cancellations within 5 days before the event will require payment in full.
Here below are the bank details to facilitate the payment:
Account Number: BE15 0014 4588 5030
BIC Code: GEBABEBB
Beneficiary: ecoDa
Address: Rue de la Loi 42, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Bank Name: BNP Paribas Fortis
Bank Address: Avenue Louise 58, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
The programme fee covers tuition, course, materials, lunches and coffee breaks.
It does not include travel costs and accommodation
Practical Information
Venues:
Training and Accommodation (recommendation):
Thon Hotel EU,
Rue de la loi, 75 / 1040 Brussels
Contact amandine.fivet@ecoda.org to receive a reservation form
Restaurant:
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What is ecoDa?
ecoDa, the European Confederation of Directors' Associations, is a not-for-profit
association acting as the “European voice of directors ”, active since March 2005 and
based in Brussels .
Through its national institutes of directors (the main national institutes existing in
Europe), ecoDa represents around fifty-five thousand board directors from across the EU.
ecoDa's member organisations represent board directors from the largest public
companies to the smallest private firms, both listed and unlisted.
ecoDa's mission is to promote good Corporate Governance at large, to promote the role
of directors towards shareholders and corporate stakeholders, and to promote the
success of its national institutes.
To perform its mission, ecoDa is committed
1- to influence the European decision-making on corporate governance by reacting to
pending issues in the European pipeline or by pro-actively taking own initiatives to
generate European debate and reflection,
2- to develop European governance standards by acting as a standing body where
national experiences are shared and discussed in detail and
3- to provide services to its members, mainly by providing information regarding relevant
European issues
4- to promote the development of new national director institutes and attract new
members in order to strengthen its European representativeness,
Behind ecoDa, there are well-known institutes of directors which have already developed
competences and reputations in organising national training programs for directors.
www.ecoda.org
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ecoDa
Rue de la Loi, 42
B- 1040 Brussels
Belgium
Director of the programme
Roger Barker
ecoDa’s Secretary General
Beatrice Richez-Baum
Communication Assistant
Amandine Fivet
Email address:
amandine.fivet@ecoda.org
Telephone number: 32 (0)2 231 58 11
Fax number: 32 (0)2 231 58 31
Website: www.ecoda.org
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