Keynote Speakers
Prof. Jean Bédard
Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Prof Bédard received his PhD from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1986 and has published intensively in the areas of auditing and corporate governance. He holds a Chair in Corporate Governance at Université Laval since 2012 and has received the 2013 Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought from the Canadian Academic Accounting Association.

Prof. Guido Ferrarini
University of Genoa, Italy
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), Brussels founder member 

Prof. Guido Ferrarini is Professor of Business Law and Capital Markets Law at the University of Genoa, Department of Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Finance. He holds a J. D. (University of Genoa, 1972), an LL.M. (Yale Law School, 1978) and a Dr. jur. (h.c., Ghent University, 2009). He is founder and fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), Brussels. He was a member of the Board of Trustees, International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) and an independent director at several Italian blue-chip companies. He was an advisor to the Draghi Commission on Financial Markets Law Reform, to Consob (the Italian Securities Commission) and to the Corporate Governance Committee of the Italian Stock Exchange. He has held Visiting Professor positions at several universities in Europe (Bonn, Frankfurt, Ghent, Hamburg, LSE, UCL, Tilburg and Duisenberg) and the US (Columbia, NYU and Stanford), teaching courses on comparative corporate governance and financial regulation. He is author of many articles in the fields of financial law, corporate law and business law, and editor of several books, including Financial Regulation and Supervision: A Post-crisis Analysis (with E. Wymeersch and K. Hopt), OUP 2012; Boards and Shareholders in European Listed Companies (with M. Belcredi), CUP 2013 and European Banking Union (with D. Busch), OUP forthcoming 2015.