The Global Meltdown What Happened? What Now? What next? The Answers You Need From The People Who Know The Next Few Months Are Crucial The event that asks why corporate governance didn’t save the global economy and how it could bring it back from disaster.

Why You Should Attend The 3rd Annual Corporate Governance Congress:

	Gain expert insights into the role of corporate governance in the global economic collapse
	Receive practical advice on how your organisation can rebuild credible governance
	How to face the crisis head-on – and come out stronger on the other side
	Examine real life case studies including Lehman Brothers and AIG
	Explore the implications and complications of global governance
	Understand the relationships between boards, management and stakeholders
	Enjoy unrivalled networking opportunities with regulatory bodies and authorities, directors, CEO’s, C-Level Executives, international experts and gurus!
	Discover whether there is a new corporate governance revolution!

Featuring Key Contributions From Experts Including:

Chairman of the Advisory Board
Mark W. Sickles
President and CEO, The National Association of Corporate Directors
New Jersey Chapter and Advisor to Directors and Officers, USA

Prof. Mervyn E King
Chairman, King Committee; Chairman, GRI; First Vice
President, Institute of Directors, Southern-Africa and
Non-Executive Chairman, BRAIT, South Africa

Ralph Schonenbach
CEO, Trestle Group, Switzerland

Rainer Geiger
Head, OECD-MENA Investment Programme, OECD, Germany

Samuel Lohman
Principle, GMT AML Advisors Ltd, UAE and Law Firm Lohman, Switzerland

About The Event:

As a governance professional, who do you blame for the current global financial problems? Is it the bankers with their excessive lending? Is it the fund managers who were always chasing greater returns? Or is it the end investors who for so long have ignored warnings that the value of investments can go down as well as up? What about the governance professionals that have a duty of oversight over all these groups?

There is no doubt that markets of all kinds got carried away with themselves in recent years, but should we have kept a tighter reign on them? Should we have played a greater role in preventing this crisis and, much more importantly, what can we do to help recover the situation and to stop this happening again?

In this hour of economic need, IIR is taking positive action to ensure that its clients can benefit from world class financial professionals and walk away with practical advice to help their company through these unprecedented times.

The current crisis in the global capital markets has been largely blamed on past and present approaches to corporate governance. To investigate these allegations and to see what preventative steps can be taken in the future, we will be looking at new approaches in the Middle East.

Ownership:
As markets shrink, the corporate world becomes increasingly global and questions are now being raised about the need for a global governance standard. One key factor to success may be the ownership balancing act between board and management and an approach to corporate governance that integrates strategy, risk, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Principles:
A principle-based approach to corporate governance may serve as the foundation for the establishment of a globally recognised standard for this vitally important business discipline.

Partnerships:
Many of the Middle East’s corporate governance practitioners and compliance officers are saying that governance must be practiced in a performance-based context, again increasing interdependence between directors and executives on behalf of the firm’s stakeholders.

The 3rd Annual Corporate Governance Congress aims to provide you with the evidence of what went wrong and how you can help fix it.