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URL:https://www.duurzaam-beleggen.nl/events/elverding-conference-2022-corp
 orate-leadership-investors-and-stakeholder-relations-in-a-sustainable-futu
 re/
SUMMARY:Elverding Conference 2022: Corporate leadership\, investors and sta
 keholder relations in a sustainable future
DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe world today faces several challenges such as climate ch
 ange\, the loss of biodiversity and inequality. This raises questions rega
 rding the role of companies and its stakeholders in creating a sustainable
  future. It is against this backdrop that this conference\, organised by t
 he Elverding Chair of Maastricht University\, brings academics and practit
 ioners together to discuss the role of corporate boards\, investors and st
 akeholders in designing a more sustainable corporate future. The aim of th
 is conference is to explore the role of those who play an important role i
 n long term decision-making for a more sustainable future: corporate leade
 rship\, institutional investors\, and other stakeholders such as employees
 .\n\nThere is no registration fee for this conference.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgra
 mme\n\n\n\n\n09.00-09.45\nCoffee &amp\; Registration\n\n\n09.45-10.00\nInt
 roduction\nRob Bauer Professor of Finance and holder of the Elverding Cha
 ir on Sustainable Business\, Culture and Corporate Regulation (Maastricht 
 University)\n\n\n10.00-10.45\nPresentation ‘System change\, not climate 
 change’\n\nHeleen de Coninck Professor of Socio-Technical Innovation an
 d Climate Change and one of the lead authors of the 2018 IPCC Report (TU E
 indhoven)\n\nWe need to change the system in response to climate change\, 
 but what are system transformations and how can they be enabled? Heleen de
  Coninck will discuss these developments and questions in her presentation
  on system change\, not climate change.\n\n\n10.45-11.00\nCoffee break\n\n
 \n11.00-12.30\nThe board of the future\n\nVino Timmerman Professor Commerc
 ial Law and Financial Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and former Advoca
 te General of the Dutch Supreme Court\n\nMarieke Wyckaert Professor of Eu
 ropean and Belgian Company Law (KU Leuven)\n\nIn this session\, the focus 
 will be on the board of directors given their influence on corporate decis
 ions\, including the sustainability strategy or\, in some cases\, the lack
  thereof.\n\nModerator: Mieke Olaerts Professor of Comparative and Natio
 nal Company Law and holder of the Elverding Chair on Sustainable Business\
 , Culture and Corporate Regulation (Maastricht University)\n\n\n12.30-13.3
 0\nLunch\n\n\n13.30-14.30\nKeynote ‘Shareholder welfare maximization’\
 n\nLuigi Zingales Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of 
 Entrepreneurship and Finance and George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow\, Directo
 r of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State (Univer
 sity of Chicago)\n\nThis lecture asks how corporate governance practices c
 an be brought into closer alignment with observed behaviour about investor
  preferences regarding sustainability. It outlines a new approach to corpo
 rate governance based on ‘shareholder welfare maximization’.\n\n\n14.3
 0-14.45\nCoffee break\n\n\n14.45-16.15\nThe investor of the future\n\nDomi
 nique Dijkhuis Executive Board Member\, ABP Pension Fund\n\n‘Sustainabl
 e investor engagement in the Netherlands: opportunities and challenges’\
 , Christoph van der Elst and Anne Lafarre Professor of Business Law and 
 Economics (University of Tilburg) and Associate Professor at the Departme
 nt of Private\, Business and Labour Law (University of Tilburg)\n\nThis se
 ssion discusses how investors can best navigate dilemmas regarding sustain
 able investment / divestment. It also considers to what extent sustainable
  investor engagement has been effective in the Netherlands.\n\nModerator:
  Rob Bauer\n\n\n16.15-16.30\nBreak\n\n\n16.30-17.15\nPanel discussion: Th
 e stakeholder relations of the future\n\nReinoud Clemens Sustainability P
 ortfolio Manager DSM\n\nDominique Dijkhuis\n\nMarnix van Ginneken Executi
 ve Vice President and Chief ESG &amp\; Legal Officer of Royal Philips\, Pr
 ofessor of Commercial Law and Financial Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
 \n\nBas van Weegberg Executive Board Member\, FNV Labour Union\n\nThe clo
 sing panel invites various speakers from business\, academia\, labour unio
 ns\, and pension funds to reflect on the purpose of the corporation in the
  context of the day’s proceedings.\n\nModerator: Constantijn van Aartse
 n\, Postdoc researcher for the Elverding Chair\n\n\n17.15-17.30\nClosingMi
 eke Olaerts\n\n\n17.30-18.30\nDrinks\n\n\n19.00-22.00\nDinner for speakers
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis conference is organised and funded by the
  Elverding Chair for Sustainable Business\, Culture and Corporate Regula
 tion. The theme of the Chair is to investigate how sustainable\, long-term
  corporate decision making can be enhanced from both a national as well as
  a European perspective.\n\nThe Elverding Chair is held jointly by Prof. D
 r. Rob Bauer and Prof. Mr. Mieke Olaerts\, respectively from the School of
  Business and Economics and the Law Faculty of Maastricht University. This
  collaboration makes it possible to investigate the research theme from a 
 multidisciplinary angle\, using insights from both economics and law.\n\nT
 he Chair is sponsored by DSM\, Q-Park\, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) ING\, 
 and Broadview.\n\nMore information/registration\n\n\n\n\n\n
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