Welcome to the ICGN

The ICGN is a global membership organisation of around 450 leaders in corporate governance based in 45 countries with a mission to raise standards of corporate governance worldwide. We invite you to join the ICGN and share your experiences, knowledge and expertise with fellow decision-makers in corporate governance from around the world.

ICGN members are largely institutional investors who collectively represent funds under management of around US$9.5 trillion. The breadth and expertise of ICGN members from investment, business, the professions and policymaking extends across global capital markets.

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2010 ICGN Mid-Year Conference

Will shareholders rise to the ownership challenge? Ensuring regulatory and structural reform brings results

The first ICGN Conference of 2010 is hosted by the City of London and takes place at the Guildhall. An international line-up of speakers will debate whether shareholders, in this climate of regulatory uncertainty, can effectively take up the ownership mantle and be actively engaged with the companies. Will they be supported or hindered by regulatory and good practice guidelines recently promulgated in response to the financial crisis? What role can shareholders play in mitigating excessive bank bonuses and how much influence should they have in nominating directors to the board?  Confirmed speakers include Sir David Walker, author of the Walker Review of Corporate Governance in UK Banks and Financial Institutions; Lord Paul Myners CBE, Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury and Sir Christopher Hogg, Chairman of the UK Financial Reporting Council, along with Antoine de Salins, Executive Director of the French Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites; Sir Richard Lapthorne CBE, Chairman of Cable & Wireless, and Finn Johnsson among many others.

Click here to see the full agenda and to register online. To find out more about the conference contact Tina Chande, Head of Events, at tina.chande@icgn.org. Find out more about this conference.

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2010 ICGN Annual Conference

The Changing Global Balances

The next ICGN Annual Conference takes place in Toronto, Canada. The conference is hosted by the Teachers’ Pension Plan and the CPP Investment Board.

It will be held at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel on the 7 - 9 of June. To find out more about the conference contact Tina Chande, Head of Events, at tina.chande@icgn.org or click here to register your place. Find out more about this conference.

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ICGN Global Corporate Governance Principles: Revised (2009)

The International Corporate Governance Network is glad to present its ICGN Global Corporate Governance Principles: Revised (2009) which were launched at the ICGN Washington Conference on 18-19 November 2009.

The Principles aim to assert standards of corporate governance to which the ICGN believes that all companies should aspire. The Principles are intended to be of general application around the world, irrespective of
legislative background or listing rules. These Principles are the ICGN’s overarching set of Principles.

View an extract from the ICGN Global Corporate Governance Principles: Revised (2009). To access the complete version, please contact Audrey Hart by email audrey.hart@icgn.org or by telephone +44 (0) 207 612 7098.