Category: Conferences

ICGN’s Annual Conference 2018 was held in Milan. It was hosted by Assogestioni in partnership with UniCredit. The four day event was a tremendous success and welcomed over 450 delegates from 38 regions. The aim of the conference was to help build a consensus around the near term priorities for ensuring successful and sustainable companies.  Among the speakers there were some of Italy’s most prominent leaders.

Cristina Ungureanu was a speaker of Panel 1, Day 1: Stewardship codes: putting principles into practice

Cristina Ungureanu – among the speakers at thee 2017 Italy Corporate Governance Conference, organized by Assogestioni and Assonime in cooperation with the OECD and with the support of the Italian Stock Exchange.

Since 2014, this annual conference represents an opportunity for an open dialogue between public institutions, issuers and investors on various corporate governance topics, with the aim to identify the best ways to support the key role of corporate governance in value creation and economic growth.The attendance of high institutional representatives as the Minister of Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan (who will introduce the tomorrow morning session), confirms the fundamental role of corporate governance for the financial system and the importance for the Italian institutions to be involved in such a dialogue.

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Cristina Ungureanu was speaker at the 2017 Corporate Governance Workshop organized by The European House Ambrosetti.

The aim of the Corporate Governance Workshop is to provide concrete information and proposals for promoting the attainment of excellence in the corporate governance of Italian companies, based on the annual activity of the Observatory on Corporate Governance Excellence in Italy, created by The European House – Ambrosetti in 2004.

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Cristina Ungureanu participated at the October 2015 inaugural session of the new multi-year series of the Salzburg Global Forum on Corporate Governance. The event brought together in Salzburg 50 directors, senior managers, lawyers, judges, regulators, policy-makers, and academics from 16 different countries.

At the session, entitled Corporate Governance in the Global Economy: The Changing Role of Directors, participants were able to discuss their own professional experiences under Chatham House Rules, which provided a comfortable and open setting to share diverse and diverging opinions.

The session was hosted in partnership with BNY Mellon, Goldman Sachs, and Shearman & Sterling LLP, and was sponsored by Barclays, LIXIL, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Mars, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, the state of Delaware, and Warburg Pincus, with additional support from the University of Pennsylvania.

More information about the session on the Salzburg Global Seminar webpage:

Salzburg Global Forum on Corporate Governance

The report from the session is available online:

Corporate Governance in the Global Economy: The Changing Role of Directors

Hellenic Management Association & Hellenic Bank Association

6^th Risk Management & Compliance Forum – Hotel Grande Bretagne, Athens, 26^th of June 2014

The financial crisis highlights the need for effective management and control of financial risks. This event  offered to executives the possibility to exchange experiences, know-how and thoughts related to Risk Management and Compliance with financial institutions. Representatives from companies, banks, insurance companies, regulatory authorities, institutional partners, consulting companies as well as IT providers will present and analyze the current situation, developments, new trends and the role of Risk Management and Compliance in the Greek and also the wider European financial sector.

Specifically, this year’s event focused on the following topics: Trouble Asset Management; CRD IV; Stress Test; Corporate Governance; Risk Appetite.

Cristina Ungureanu was the international speaker invited at this event and held a presentation on the developments in the EU Corporate Governance of Banks, with particular emphasis on the implications of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD IV) on banks’ governance.

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The 14th Annual European Corporate Governance Conference and Experts Roundtable took place on 27th and 28th March in Athens, under the auspices of the Hellenic Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The main theme of the conference was “Can corporate governance contribute to long-term investment?”

The Experts Roundtable gathered 30 of Europe’s best, to brainstorm on the state of play and the future of Corporate Governance in Europe. The experts roundtable led by the European Commission was followed by a conference with practical insights, and three high- level workshops will take place from 27-28 March, 2014. The event was attended by institutional investors, board members and executive management, corporate governance bodies, regulators and practitioners.

The Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs (ILA) organized the Second «Director’s Day» event on 21 November 2013 at the Chambre de Commerce, Luxembourg. Distinguished speakers shared their experience and expertise on latest hot topics in relation to corporate governance at European levels, with a particular focus on the practical implementation of the best governance for Boards of Directors of listed companies and investment funds.

Cristina Ungureanu opened the conference, presenting the current international ‘Say on pay’ framework. Ms. Ungureanu discussed the  regulatory framework for shareholder voting on remuneration and the implementation of such policies.

Indian Institute of Directors, The London Global Convention on Corporate Governance & Sustainability

Cristina Ungureanu, Corporate Governance Advisor of Sodali, is one of the panelist at the London Global Convention on Corporate Governance & Sustainability, organized by the Indian Institute of Directors on 1- 4 October 2013, at Hotel Tower in London. The aim of this Convention is “Boardroom Effectiveness for Principled Corporate Governance & Sustainability”.The aim of this Convention is to provide a deeper understanding of the individual elements that combine to create an effective corporate governance framework, as well as to provide thought leadership on a number of topical issues of governance and sustainability.

The annual Global Conventions on Corporate Governance and Sustainability, over the years, have captured the interest of the professional governance community worldwide. It traditionally attracts over 200 Business leaders, Directors, CEOs, academics, Sustainability experts, Company Secretaries, environmentalists, economists, legislators and policy makers. It features high-profile Keynote Addresses and Plenary Sessions.