American Law Institute

Corporate Board Elections
and
Internal Controls

27th September 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 European Corporate Governance Institute
A free all-day conference co-sponsored by the American Law Institute and the European Corporate Governance Institute
List of those who attended
Mrs Lisa Alexander Deputy General Counsel, InterDigital Communications Corporation
Mr Walker Allen Elementis
Ms Maria Aluchna PhD, Warsaw School of Economics
Ms Loretta Argrett Corporate Director, ABRA
Mr Javier Arias Head European Affairs, BBVA
Ms Kim Azzarelli Corporate Secretary, Avon Products, Inc.
Mr Larry Backer Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
Mrs Margaret Bancroft Dechert LLP
Ms Loula Barkas Program Attorney, Practising Law Institute
Mr Robert Barker Partner, Powell Goldstein LLP
Ms Mary Ann Bartlett General Counsel, Pall Corporation
Ms Maureen Bateman Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
Mr Jonathan Bates Managing Director, Institutional Design
Mrs Paula Bauer Manager of Subsidiary Governance, International Paper Company
Professor Marco Becht Executive Director, ECGI
Ms Christina Beharry Policy Analyst,
Mr Alan Beller Director, Division of Corporate Finance, Securities and Exchange Commission
Ms Melanie Belman-Gross Senior Manager, Ernst & Young
Mr Earl Bennett SVP and General Counsel, Formica Corporation
Mr Gerald Bepko Chancellor Emeritus and member of four corporate boards, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Mr Ronald Berenbeim Principal Researcher, The Conference Board
Mr David Berger Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Ms Anna Bidwell Vice President, Credit Suisse First Boston
Mr Lawrence Bilder Private attorney
Mrs Veronica Bilder Retired Nursing Administrator
Mr Harvey Bines partner, Sullivan & Worcester LLP
Mr Jeffrey Boak Associate General Counsel, Blyth Inc.
Mr Jeremy Booker Vice President Corporate Governance, BP p.l.c.
Mr Antonio Borges ECGI Chairman and Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Ms Mary Bowler Corporate Counsel & Corporate Secretary, DuPont Company
Mr John Braun, Jr. Senior Counsel, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Mr Roger Brown Attorney at law
Ms Janice Brunner Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Ms Heike Buchter Senior Associate, New York German Press
Mr Scott Budlong Senior Corporate Counsel & Assistant Secretary, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
Mr Derek Bush Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Mr T. Grant Callery Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NASD
Dr Donald Calvin Chairman, International Business EnterprisesInc
Dr Paulo Câmara Head, Corporate Finance Department, CMVM - Portuguese Securities Commission
Mr William Candelaria Partner, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Ms Elena A. Cappella Deputy Director, The American Law Institute
Mr Brian Chartier Director Consultancy Services, Datacare Software Group
Mr James Cheek Partner, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
Ms Marjorie Chertok Senior Counsel, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Ms Rhian Chilcott Head of Washington Office, The CBI
Ms Suzanne Chmura Compliance Officer, JPMorgan Chase
Ms Yen-Yi Chu NYU School of Law
Mr Peter Clapman Executive director, Pace Law School
Dr Andrew Clearfield President, Investment Initiatives LLC
Professor John Coffee Professor, Columbia University School of Law
Mr Ronald J. Colombo Vice President & Counsel, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
Mr H. Clayton Cook Counsel, Seward & Kissel LLP
Mr Sol Corbin Board Member, The New York Public Library
Mr Robert Cox V.P. Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, PepsiCo, Inc.
Mr Robert Curry Partner, The Curry law firm
Professor Alky Danikas Lecturer, Saint Peter's College
Mr Christian Day Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law
Mr Pierre Delsaux Acting Director, European Commission
Mr David Devlin President, Federation des Experts Comptables Europeens (FEE)
Mrs Rhea Dignam Partner, Ernst & Young
Ms Deanne Dissinger Associate Deputy Director, The American Law Institute
Ms Shelley Dropkin General Counsel, Corporate Governance, Citigroup Inc.
Ms Andrea L. Dulberg Chief Counsel - Securities Law, Governance & Compliance, International Paper
Mr Carlos Egea Economist, European Central Bank/Columbia Law Sch.
Professor James Fanto Brooklyn Law School
Mr Daniel Feldman Corporate Secretary, Yukos Oil Company
Professor Guido Ferrarini Professor of Law, University of Genoa
Mr Daniel FitzGibbon Of Counsel, Barnes & Thornburg
Mr Edward Fleischman Senior Counsel, Linklaters
Mr Christopher Flood Treasurer, Marketing Essentials, Inc.
Mrs Sandrine Forgeron Meetings Planner, The American Law Institute
Mr Lloyd Frank Of Counsel, Troutman Sanders LLP
Mr Stephen Friedman Dean, Pace Law School
Mr Richard Friedman Attorney, Sichenzia, Ross, Friedman, and Ference
Mr Christopher Futer Corporate Secretary/ Director, Eagle Broadband
Mrs Elizabeth Futer Trustee, Futer Family Trust
Mr Richard Gaffin US Mission to EU
Ms Theresa Garelli Vice President & Chief Claims Counsel, First American Title Insurance Company of New York
Mr Michael Garrett (former) Associate General Counsel, Coopers & Lybrand, Swiss Reinsurance Comapny
Ms Faith E. Gay Partner, White & Case LLP
Mr Charles Gerdts General Counsel, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Professor Ronald Gilson Professor of Law, Stanford & Columbia Law Schools
Mr Nicholas Gimbel Partner, McCarter & English, LLP
Dr Di Tommaso Giulia Manager European Public Affairs, UNILEVER
Mr Goncalo Godinho Lawyer, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Mr Leo Goldschmidt Director, ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute)
Ms Alyssa Grikscheit Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
Ms Jennifer Gromek Legal Assistant, J.M. Huber Corporation
Mr Gerald Guralnik Chairman, The Business Group inc
Mr John Hansen Fellow, Center for Business Ethics
Professor Henry Hansmann Professor, Yale Law School
Ms Deborah Haraldson Senior Counsel Corporate Governance, International Paper Company
Professor Yousaf Haroon Assistant Professor (Management), Institute of Communication Technologies (PTCL)
Dr Laurence Hazell Director, Standard & Poor's
Professor M. Todd Henderson Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Mr Stephen Hochman Counsel, Friedman, Wittenstein & Hochman
Ms Arlene Hong SVP & General Counsel, J.Crew Group, Inc.
Professor Klaus Hopt Director, Max-Planck Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht
Ms Bonnie Houston President, OTR, Inc. (Securities Transfer Agent & Registrar)
Mr Hitoshi Inada General Manager. Legal Div., Mitsubishi International Corporation
Mr Jack Jacobs Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
Mr Lawrence A. Jacobs, Esq. Sr. Exec. VP & Group General Counsel, News America Corp.
Mr Joseph Johnston, jr. Retired partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath
Professor Cally Jordan Professor, Senior Counsel, University of Florida, The World Bank
Mr Erich Kandler Partner, Deloitte
Professor Roberta Karmel Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Mr David Karp Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Dr Timothy Keane Professor, Rockhurst University
Mr Joseph Kelley, Jr. Managing Partner, Kelley & Murphy
Mr Richard Kerschner New York Mercantile Exchange
Ms Jane Kober Sr. V.P., General Counsel, Biopure Corporation
Mr Dan Konigsburg Director, Governance Services, Standard & Poor's
Ms Phoebe Kornfeld Vice President, Corporate Counsel, Chiron Corporation
Ms Rakhi Kumar Corporate Governance Analyst, Institute of International Finance
Mr Sean Patrick Lane Managing Director, Kinsale Advisors LLC
Mrs Andrea Lawler Associate General Counsel - Corporate, Omnicom Group Inc.
Mr John Lawrence Member, Dickinson Wright Pllc
Mr Stephen Lehman SVP & Principal Legal Counsel, Corporate, Reuters America LLC
Mr Kevin Leitao Operations Counsel, GE Commercial Finance
Dr Leslie Levy President, Directors Data, Inc.
Professor Lance Liebman Director, ALI
Mr Martin Lipton Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Mrs France Lucas Associate, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Professor Myles Lynk Professor of Law, Arizona State University
Mr Robert MacDonald Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Ms Evelyn Mak ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, USA CHINA LAW GROUP
Mr Carlos Mancini Counsel, Banco Cuscatlan
Ms LaBrena Martin SVP, Deputy General Counsel, Royal Bank of Canada
Mr Wally Martinez Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Diageo North America
Mr Jean-Aymon Massie Chairman, French Corporate Governance Association
Ms Netsai Mbewu Compliance Officer, MBCA Bank Limited
Mr William McDonough Chairman, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Ms Caitriona McGonagle Lawyer, Matheson Ormsby Prentice
Ms Michelle Meertens Corporate Secretary, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Mr Pedro Meloni Executive V. P., BankBoston Brazil (retired)
Mr John Merow Senior Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Ms Katherine Mikel Assistant General Counsel, Metalico, Inc.
Mr Jeremy Miller ECGI Consultant & Webmaster, ECGI
Mrs Christine Miller ECGI Membership, ECGI
Mr Choongo Moonga Writer, Incisive Media
Ms Alison Moore Associate, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Ms Agathe Moyer Lawyer, NYU
Mr Robert Mundheim Of Counsel, Shearman & Sterling
Mr Ali Najam Student, Linkoping University
Dr Justin O'Brien Senior Lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast
Mr Kim Oestergaard Assistent Professor, M.Sc., Ph.D., Copenhagen Business School, Law Deparment
Mr Elliot Orol SVP and General Counsel, The Navigators Group, Inc.
Mr Matthew Orsagh Senior Policy Analyst, CFA Centre for Financial Market Integrity
Mr Peter Papagianakis Business Law Firm LLC
Mr Joel Papernik Member, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Mr Nicholas Paraskeva Senior Vice President- Global Regulatory Risk, Citigroup
Mr Alexander Patterson Partner, Alston & Bird, LLP
Dr Elena Perez Carrillo Researcher, University of Santiago de Compostela
Mr Mikolaj Pindelski Assistant Professor, Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)
Mr Arthur Pinto Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Professor Katharina Pistor Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Mr Salvatore Providenti Lawyer - Office Director
Professor Frederick Provorny Visiting Law School Professor and Director, Maryland Intellectual Property, University of Maryland School of Law
Mr Neil Puddicombe Associate, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Mr Roger Pugh UN Main NGO Representative, Lawyers Without Borders
Mr Robert Radway Director, World GTL, Inc.
Mr Roderick Ramage Solicitor, Roderick Ramage, UK.
Mrs Sally Ramage Academic writer/lecturer
Ms Roberta Ramo Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, PA
Ms Tali Reisenberger Research Associate & LLM candidate, New York University
Ms Maureen Richards Senior VP, General Counsel & Corp. Secretary, Footstar, Inc.
Mr Allen Roberts Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Mr Jonathan Roberts Assistant General Counsel, Ernst & Young LLP
Mr eliot robinson Executive Vice President, sterling national bank
Mr Josh Rosner Managing Director, Medley Global Advisors
Mr Michael Ross Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Professor Allan Roth Rutgers University
Mr Victor Rubino Executive Director, PLI
Professor Irma Russell Professor, University of Memphis
Ms Lori Russo Director and Counsel, Credit Suisse First Boston
Professor Kristian Rydqvist Binghamton University
Mr Rehan Saeed CEO, SOX Audits
Mr Paul Saffert Department Head, Allianz
Ms Georgia Sambunaris Financial Sector Specialist, US Agency for International Development (USAID)
Mr Manuel María Sánchez Alvarez Professor Mercantil Law, ULPGC
Mr Todd Schaper VP/General Counsel, Youth Consultation Service, Inc.
Mr Alexander Schaub Director General, European Commission
Mr Daniel Schenck Assoc. General Counsel, IBM
Mr David Schraa Director Regulatory Affairs, Institute of International Finance
Mr Ghulam Shabbir Associate, Babar & Associates
Mr Willoughby Sheane Attorney-at-Law
Mr John Sherman Deputy General Counsel, National Grid
Mr Hugo Silva Quintana Lawyer, NYU - Master of Laws
Mr Richard Simeone Division Legal Counsel - Corporate, IDT Corporation
Ms Elif Sisli Ph.D. Student, New York University
Mr David Skoblow General Counsel, CLS Bank International
Mr Ross Smith Associate Counsel, ICAP North America Inc.
Mr Gary Arlen Smith Vice President & General Counsel, Tengion, Inc.
Ms Elizabeth Snyderwine Director of Programs and Development, Duke University Global Capital Markets Center
Mr Adam Spilka Senior VP, Counsel and Secretary, Alliance Capital
Mr Samuel Stern Partner, Hills & Stern LLP
Mr Clint Stuntebeck Partner Emeritus, Schnader
Dr Daniel Summerfield Adviser-Responsible Investment, USS
Mr David Szafran Secretary general, Institut de Reviseurs d'Entreprises
Mr Olivier Terrettaz DnO consulting Sarl
Ms Meagan Thompson Corporate Governance Counsel, Railpen Investments
Mr Phillandas Thompson Associate Counsel, Barr Laboratories, Inc.
Ms Annemarie Tierney Assistant General Counsel, New York Stock Exchange
Professor David G. Trager U.S. District Judge, Brooklyn Law School
Mr Michael Traynor President, American Law Institute
Ms Debra Valentine Vice President, Secretary & Associate General Counsel, United Technologies Corporation
Mr Bart van Beurden Director Corporate Governance, EY Netherlands
Ms Jane Vris lawyer, Cronin & Vris, LLP
Mr Evan Wallach Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
Mr Nicholas Wallwork Beshears Wallwork Bellamy
Mr Mark Watson Senior Vice President - Corporate Governance Analysis, Moody's Investors Service
Mr Crispin Waymouth First Secretary, Delegation of the European Commission to the US
Ms Mary Louise Weber Assistant General Counsel, Verizon Communications
Mr John Wilcox Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF
Ms Jacqueline Williams Head, Regulatory Affairs, Governance & Corporate Services, Royal Bank of Canada
Ms Thea Winarsky General Counsel, The Columbia House Company
Mr Chao Xi SOAS, University of London
Ms Cheryl Yakey-Fogle Assistant General Counsel, American International Group
Mr Eric Zagar Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP
Ms Lori Zyskowski Asst General Counsel, MeadWestvaco Corporation