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European Corporate Governance Institute
Purpose: The European Corporate Governance Institute's (ECGI) primary role is to undertake, commission and disseminate research on corporate governance.
Membership: It is a forum for debate between academics, legislators and practitioners, focusing on major corporate governance issues and promoting best practice.
Founded: 2002, the successor organisation to the European Corporate Governance Network
Based: Brussels
Structure: The ECGI’s ultimate authority is the general assembly, comprising all the members of the institute, each of whom has one vote. The assembly meets at least once a year to provide a forum for the ongoing governance of the ECGI, and allow members to meet and debate matters of importance and topicality. A number of committees are appointed to undertake specified functions.
Executive Director: Marco Becht, professor of finance and economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles Chairman: Antonio Borges, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International Vice Chairman: Guido Ferrarini, professor of law, University of Genoa
Activities: The ECGI disseminates research results and other relevant material through its website. It undertakes research projects, clinical papers, finance working papers and law working papers. It makes available on its website the full texts of corporate governance codes, principles of corporate governance and corporate governance reforms both in Europe and elsewhere.
Conferences, discussions and debates are hosted, including the transatlantic corporate governance dialogue, designed to bring together leading academics from law, economics and finance, regulators, judges, law makers, corporate leaders, investors and other corporate constituencies on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Corporate governance codes, principles & recommendations
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