1st International Corporate Governance Conference-AGENDA

AGENDA

1st International Corporate Governance Conference

21 September 2011 (Wednesday)

Time

Item

Host

6.00 p.m.

Welcoming Cocktail
for Guests, Speakers and Panellists

Mrs April Chan FCIS FCS(PE)
President, Corporate Secretaries International Association
Company Secretary, CLP Holdings Limited

22 September 2011 (Thursday)

Time

Rundown and Topics

Speakers/Panellists

8.15 a.m.

Registration

8.45 a.m.

MC Opening

Mr Phillip Baldwin
Chief Executive, The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries

8.50 a.m.

Welcoming Address

Mrs April Chan FCIS FCS(PE)
President, Corporate Secretaries International Association
Company Secretary, CLP Holdings Limited

9.00 a.m.

Corporate Governance of Shanghai Stock Exchange- Review and Outlook

Mr Qinye Zhou
Chief Accountant of Shanghai Stock Exchange

Session One: Western Corporate Governance Practices: the Role Model?

9.20 a.m.

The US Corporate Governance Model: Was (and still is) The Model?

Ms Katherine K Combs
Chairman, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals

9.40 a.m.

The EU Corporate Governance Model: Post-Tsunami Revelations

Dr Grant Kirkpatrick
Deputy Head, Corporate Affairs Division, OECD

10.00 a.m.

The UK Corporate Governance Model: Views from a Practitioner

Mr Ben Mathews BA (Hons.) FCIS
Company Secretary and Global Head of Secretarial Services, Rio Tinto plc

10.20 a.m.

Panel Discussion and Q&A
Panel Chair: Dr R I Tricker, Founder-Editor of Corporate Governance: An International Review

Discussion questions will include:

Is there a Western governance model (practices vary even within the EU)?
What are its unique strengths and weaknesses?
How and why did it fail to prevent or mitigate the global financial crisis?
Lessons learned and reforms under consideration or taken?
Does it remain the role model worldwide?
How does it drive sustainability?Does it serve as the foundation for uniformity in reporting on sustainability?

Ms Katherine K Combs

Dr Grant Kirkpatrick

Mr Ben Mathews BA (Hons.) FCIS

Ms Susie Cheung FCIS FCS(PE)
General Counsel and Company Secretary, The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited

Mr Qing Huang
Board Secretary, China Shenhua Energy Company Limited

11.00 a.m.

Networking Break

Session Two: Non-Western Corporate Governance Practices: the Emerging Model?

11.15 a.m.

China Corporate Governance Model: Development and Trend

Mr Ge Deng

Director, Listed Company Supervision Department,
China Securities Regulatory Commission

11.35 a.m.

Corporate Governance Practices in Africa: Challenges and Solutions

Mr Hakeem Ogunniran FCIS
Managing Director/CEO
UACN Property Development Co. plc

11.55 a.m.

Corporate Governance Practices in Emerging Market Economies: Trends and Implications

Dr Y R K Reddy
Founder Trustee & Head, Academy of Corporate Governance

12.15 p.m.

New Vision in building Risk Management and Internal Control Mechanism

Ms Elena Yu
Associate Director, Enterprise Risk Services Department,Deloitte Shanghai

12.30 p.m.

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Panel Chair: Mr Peter Turnbull FCIS, Treasurer, Corporate Secretaries International Association

Discuss corporate governance practices in the non-Western world: Africa, Brazil, China, India, and Japan

Discussion questions will include:

How do non-Western practices differ from Western ones?How do culture, laws, level of economic development, and government structure influence the practices?
Are non-Western governance models going to go their own ways?
Are non-Western approaches the leaders in addressing sustainability and its reporting?

Mr Ge Deng

Mr Wei Gao FCIS FCS,
Board Secretary & General Counsel, Sinotrans Limited

Mr Hakeem Ogunniran FCIS

Dr Y R K Reddy

Mr Tim Sheehy

Chief Executive, Chartered Secretaries Australia

Mr Jun Yao FCIS FCS
Company Secretary & General Counsel, Ping An Insurance (Group)

Ms Elena Yu

1.10 p.m.

Lunch

Session Three: Towards a Sustainable Global Model?

2.10 p.m.

Souvenir Presentation

2.25 p.m.

The Cultural Dependence of Corporate Governance - Towards a Sustainable Global Model?

Dr R I Tricker

2.55 p.m.

Networking Break

3.10 p.m.

Panel Discussion and Q&A

Panel Chair: Professor Roger King, Director, Center for Asia Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies, The Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology

Opening by Panel Chair

Discussion questions will include:

Convergence (or continued divergence) of Western and non-Western governance models?
Is the need to access global capital markets strong enough to drive convergence?
Must the model be uniform worldwide or allow for local adaptation, given differences in many factors, from shareholder activism to concentrated ownership patterns?

Professor Xinsheng Cheng
Professor, PhD Supervisor, Business School of Nankai University

Dr Grant Kirkpatrick

Ms Edith Shih FCIS FCS(PE)
Head Group General Counsel & Company Secretary, Hutchison Whampoa Limited

Dr R I Tricker

Mr Peter Turnbull FCIS

4.40 p.m.

Closing Address and Roundtable Preview

Mrs April Chan FCIS FCS(PE)

5.00 p.m. -
6.30 p.m.

Cocktail Reception

23 September 2011 (Friday)

Time

Concurrent Activities /Rundown

9.00 a.m. –
11.00 a.m.

CSIA Roundtable

Roundtable Chair: Mrs April Chan FCIS FCS(PE)
Reflections on the Path and Implications Towards a Global Governance Model

Ms Katherine K Combs

Mr Ge Deng

Professor Roger King

Dr Grant Kirkpatrick

Mr Ben Mathews BA (Hons.), FCIS

Mr Hakeem Ogunniran FCIS

Dr Y R K Reddy

Mr Tim Sheehy

Dr R I Tricker

Mr Peter Turnbull FCIS

Ms Elena Yu

+40 Delegates

9.00 a.m. –
11.30 a.m.

Field Visits to China Corporations

a. China Shipping Container Lines Co., Ltd.

b. Shanghai Volkswagen

Housekeeping Matters

Each speaker will have 20 minutes to do the presentation.
Each session will have a panel discussion with Q&A from the audience.
The conference venue will be equipped with an interactive voting system for delegates to vote on questions from speakers/panellists (with instant polling results).
The conference will be conducted in English with two-way instant translation (English-Putonghua).
The programme rundown is subject to change.