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Corporate governance series kicks off Oct. 2

3:30 p.m., Sept. 22, 2003--A series of panel discussions featuring some of the nation’s leading figures in important corporate governance issues will be held this fall by the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.

The discussions are part of an undergraduate finance course offered by Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, who himself is a prominent expert in the field.

Sessions will meet from 9:30-10:45 a.m., on selected Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning Oct. 2 and concluding Nov. 18, in 126 Alfred Lerner Hall. Members of the campus community and the public are invited to attend, and if interested should call the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at 831-6157.

“I’m very excited about the fall series,” Elson said. “It will provide UD students and members of the community access to the insights of corporate executives, nationally recognized academics, business journalists and judges on issues including executive compensation, audit committee reform and governance guidelines.”

Elson said he is particularly anticipating the Nov. 18 session, which will bring together commissioners from the Securities and Exchange Commission and judges from the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court, which essentially oversee the nation’s corporate law, to discuss shareholder access to the company proxy.

“This should be a real treat,” Elson said of the session, which will be attended by SEC Commissioners Paul Atkins and Harvey Goldschmidt, Delaware Supreme Court Justices Jack Jacobs and E. Norman Veasey and Court of Chancery Vice Chancellors Leo Strine and Stephen Lamb.

Also on the panel will be Larry Hamermesh, director of the Widener University Institute of Delaware Corporate Law; John Olson, senior partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Eric Roiter, senior vice president and general counsel of Fidelity Management & Research Co.; John Wilcox, vice chairperson of Georgeson Shareholder Communications; and Ann Yerger, director of council research for the Council of Institutional Investors.

The opening session on executive compensation scheduled Oct. 2 will feature panelists Rajesh K. Aggarwal, professor in the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia; William Chandler, chancellor of the Court of Chancery; Hayward Fisk, general counsel for Computer Sciences Corp.; Jack Krol, retired chairperson and chief executive officer of DuPont; David McBride, senior partner with Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP; Patrick McGeehan, business writer for The New York Times; and Linda Scott, director of corporate governance for TIAA-CREF.

The session on audit committee reform scheduled Oct. 28 will feature Ray Bromark, partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers; Richard Cavanaugh, president and chief executive officer of The Conference Board; R. William Ide, partner of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP and former president of the American Bar Association; John Noble, vice chancellor of the Court of Chancery; Julian Oettinger, general counsel and corporate secretary for Walgreen Co.; Larry Rittenberg, Ernst and Young Professor of Accounting at the University of Wisconsin; and Anil Shivdasani, Wachovia Distinguished Professor and chair of finance at the University of North Carolina.

The session on corporate governance guidelines scheduled Nov. 6 will feature Richard Bernard, executive vice president and general counsel of the New York Stock Exchange; William Casazza, vice president, deputy general counsel and corporate secretary for Aetna; William Cotter, senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for AIG; Jamie Heard, chief executive officer of Institutional Shareholder Services; Jack Jacobs, justice of the Delaware Supreme Court; Jeff Sonnenfeld, associate dean of the Yale University School of Management; and Ralph Walking, professor of finance at Ohio State University.

Article by Neil Thomas

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