Released on: August 12, 2008, 8:55 am

Press Release Author: Roger L. Newman

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: More than 200 global leaders in corporate governance 
including corporate executives and directors, regulators, and academics  gathered
at Yale Universitys School of Management this summer, marking another successful
round of the Yale Governance Forum. The two-day event aims to facilitate discussion
on current issues in the management field, including the current state of global
capital markets

Press Release Body: More than 200 global leaders in corporate governance  including
corporate executives and directors, regulators, and academics  gathered at Yale
Universitys School of Management this summer, marking another successful round of
the Yale Governance Forum. The two-day event aims to facilitate discussion on
current issues in the management field, including the current state of global
capital markets (http://mba.yale.edu/news_events/CMS/Articles/6516.shtml).

Panels included a lively discussion about practices in the proxy industry; analysis
of recent events from William Donaldson, founding dean of Yale SOM, in conversation
with Hal Scott, professor and director of the Program on International Financial
Systems at Harvard Law School; and a discussion of the state of the global capital
markets with panelists that included David Jackson \'93, the CEO of Istithmar World
Capital, an investment arm of Dubai, UAE.

The Yale School of Managements mission is to educate leaders who will approach and
solve lingering problems that matter to stakeholders across the social spectrum. It
is lead by an accomplished board of advisors, including William H. Donaldson,
chairman of Donaldson Enterprises
(http://mba.yale.edu/why/advisors/profiles/donaldsonw.shtml) and the 27th chairman
of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Josh Bekenstein
(http://mba.yale.edu/why/advisors/profiles/bekensteinj.shtml), a managing director
of Bain Capital LLC (http://www.jigsaw.com/scid8669947/josh_bekenstein.xhtml)
(http://www.spoke.com/public/pages/A/person/001/627/896), a leading global private
investment firm based in Boston.


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Contact Details: Roger L. Newman
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