VIII National Congress of Corporate Directors to be held in Moscow on December 4, 2009. The Congress is organized by Russian Institute of Directors and Board of the Professional Community of Corporate Directors in cooperation with Russian Managers Association with participation of National Corporate Governance Board and with support of Association of Regional Banks of Russia, Investor Protection Association, Moscow International Currency exchange (MICEX), National Public Organization “Business Russia”, National League of Management Companies and the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RF CCI).  

General Sponsors of the Congress are the companies KPMG and LUKOIL, sponsorship is also provided by the Joint-Stock Financial Corporation Sistema, the JSCB “Investment Trade Bank”, the JSC “Uralsvyazinform”.  

Strategic partner of the Congress is business newspaper Kommersant.

General partners: Interfax News Agency, Media Holding EXPERT, Radio Business FM 87,5 , Managers Business Games Federation;

Official partners: Business News Agency PRIME-TASS, newspaper Economy & Life, Harvard Business Review Magazine, Publishing House EKSMO.  

Information partners:  The Moscow Times, Financial Communications and Investor Relations Association (ARFI), information agency UNIVER.RU, specialized publications and magazines:  “Aktsionernoe obschestvo”, Wonderbuild, “General Director”, BOSS, Magazine for shareholders, Capital of the Country,  Securities Market, Mergers & Acquisitions.   

Speakers:

*Arkady Dvorkovich, Aide to the RF President;
Vladimir Gerasimov, Executive Director, Interfax Group;
Dmitry Grishankov, General Director of the Rating Agency Expert RA;
Sergey Guriev, Rector of New Economic School;
Vladimir Gusakov, Vice-President of MICEX;
Sergey Katyrin, Vice-President of the RF CCI;
Elena Kuritsyna, Deputy Head of the Federal Financial Market Service of the RF;
Boris Lvov, Partner, KPMG Business Consulting Department;
Alexander Nekipelov, Academician, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Science;
Vladimir Tarasov, Head of the Tallin School of Managers;
Vladimir Tarachev, Chairman of Shareholders Consultative Council of VTB Bank, professor of the Financial Academy of the RF Government;
Andrei Sharonov, Managing Director, Head of IB Troika Dialog Group.

*Confirmation is expected

Since 2002 Congresses have become significant annual professional forums contributing to development of corporate governance in Russia, implementation of international standards into business practice of the Russian companies, as well as to improvement of Russian business status both nationally and internationally.

The main objective of Congresses is to consolidate professional community which primarily includes members of the National Register of Professional Corporate Directors, as well as to discus pressing issues of improving the role of corporate directors in governance of Russian companies. The community issues become particularly relevant because of the recent decisions of the RF President and the RF Government on engaging outside/independent directors in companies with state participation.    

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