2026 GCGC CONFERENCE: SINGAPORE

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Friday
12 June 2026 (Europe/Brussels)

9:15 AM

Registration (Time: SGT)

9:45 AM

Welcome

Speaker: Umakanth Varottil, Hans Tjio

10:00 AM

Session 1

10:00 AM

The Proxy Voting Choice Revolution

Speaker: Dorothy Lund | Discussant: Merritt Fox

10:45 AM

How Shareholder Voice Shapes Board Agendas

Speaker: Qi Wang | Discussant: Kobi Kastiel

11:30 AM

Coffee break

12:00 PM

Session 2

12:00 PM

Corporate National Identity

Speaker: Mariana Pargendler | Discussant: Roy Shapira

12:45 PM

Controllers Unbound

Speaker: Lucian Bebchuk | Discussant: Jill Fisch

1:30 PM

Lunch break

2:30 PM

Session 3

Moderator: Ernest Lim

2:30 PM

BlackRock Exceptionalism in the Geopolitics of Proxy Voting

Speaker: Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin | Discussant: Assaf Hamdani

3:15 PM

Geopolitical Pressure, Consumer Demand, and Corporate Responses

Speaker: Alminas Zaldokas | Discussant: Rainer Haselmann

4:00 PM

Coffee break

4:30 PM

Session 4

4:30 PM

Panel Discussion I: The Political Economy of Global Stock Exchange Competition

Moderator: Georg Ringe | Panelists: Thom Abbott, Chin-Yee Chew, Curtis Milhaupt and Kazuhiko Yoshimatsu

6:00 PM

Reception & Dinner
Saturday
13 June 2026 (Europe/Brussels)

9:45 AM

Registration (Time: SGT)

10:00 AM

Session 5

Moderator: Dan Puchniak

10:00 AM

Engines of External Governance

Speaker: Elizabeth Pollman | Discussant: Gen Goto

10:45 AM

Corporate Purpose, Sustainability and Law

Speaker: Steen Thomsen | Discussant: Amir Licht

11:30 AM

Coffee break

12:00 PM

Session 6

12:00 PM

Common Ownership around the World

Speaker: Mireia Giné | Discussant: Kenneth Khoo

12:45 PM

The Global Rise of Index-Based Ownership of Firms

Speaker: Bo Becker | Discussant: Marco Becht

1:30 PM

Lunch break

2:30 PM

Session 7

2:30 PM

Panel Discussion II: The global rebalancing of corporate governance norms

Moderator: Jennifer Hill | Panelists: Joon Hyug Chung, Jeanne Stampe, Jeffrey Gordon

3:30 PM

Coffee break

4:00 PM

Session 8

4:00 PM

Delegated Blocks

Speaker: Amil Dasgupta | Discussant: Patrick Bolton

4:45 PM

Awards for the Best Papers in the ECGI Working Paper Series in 2025 sponsored by Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

Speakers: Mireia Giné, Amir Licht

4:50 PM

🏆 Escaping Pay-for-Performance

Speaker: Jakub Hajda

5:15 PM

🏆 How the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America

Speakers: Luca Enriques, Roy Shapira

5:45 PM

Conference ends

6:30 PM

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