World-class speakers in Malta today for milestone 20th European Corporate Governance Conference

The Institute of Directors Malta Branch, have been entrusted by Europe’s leading

corporate governance institutions to organise the 20th European Corporate Governance Conference as part of the Maltese EU Presidency programme in conjunction with the Malta Institute of Management.

The conference is supported by the Ministry of Finance and will be opened by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna featuring a raft of world-class speakers, the single most talented corpus of corporate governance experts ever to visit Malta.

The event is sponsored by EY EAME, EY Malta and Paragon Europe and co-organised by the Institute of Directors Malta in conjunction with the Malta Institute of Management and the European Confederation of Directors' Associations together with BusinessEurope and EuropeanIssuers.

The 20th European Corporate Governance Conference is a full day event being held today at Le Meridien in Balluta Bay. The conference features a series of five panels that explore longterm value creation; rebuilding trust with corporate governance; corporate governance and CSR; digitalization and innovation, and, a final panel 'The 20th European Corporate Governance Conference: A milestone for Corporate Governance history' which will feature contributions from Patrick Zurstrassen, Honorary Chair of ecoDa, Founding Member and Former Chairman of ILA, the Luxem- bourg Institute of Directors, David Devlin, Chairman, European Corporate Governance Institute and Stephen Martin, Director General, IoD UK.

Some of the world-class speakers in the conference panels include Mark Goyder, CEO, Tomorrow’s Company; Florence Bindelle, Secretary General, EuropeanIssuers; Marcello Bianchi, Member of the Bureau of the OECD Corporate Governance Committee and Deputy Director General, Assonime; Kiyomi Saito, President, JBond Totan Securities Co., Ltd.; Peter Swabey, Policy & Research Director, ICSA Governance Insti- tute; Claudia Kruse, High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance; Andrew Hobbs, Partner, EY; Guyliene Saucier, Board member, AC Chair, Wendel; Francesco Chiappetta, Chairman of Company Law Working Group, Business Europe, Legal Counsel Pirelli; Irena Prijovic, Chair, ecoDa; Antoine Metzger, Executive Director, French Institute of Directors; Bernd Rummel, Policy Expert Regulation, European Banking Authority; Madi Sharma, European Economic and Social Committee Employers Group and Dr. Elona Prroj, Pastor, Director of No Blood Feud, Yes to Life Foundation.

IoD Chairman James J. Satariano said, “Being the 20th edition of the European Corporate Governance Conference we wanted to do something special, and this 20th edition being held in Malta is a very special conference, with more speakers than ever before as well as guests in panel five from the original seeding conferences. It will be exciting to find out what

Partrick, David and Stephen think the direction will be for corporate governance over the next 20 conferences.”

For the programme and to register visit: http://paragonevents.eu/corporate-governance.php or call 9920 7677, a limited number of conference-only places are left at the special offer price of €199+VAT on a first-come first-served basis. IoD and MIM members benefit from a special members-only rate.