The Chairmans Club - Agendas and Themes
Agendas and Themes
These are some of the themes of selected meetings which have taken place in the past together with the names of the keynote guest introducers.
| Bank Watch | Stephen Green |
| Shareholder activism and Boards | Sir Christopher Hogg |
| China Watch | Jing Ulrich |
| Sustainability | Jonathon Porritt |
| Managing through White Water | Sir Malcolm Williamson and Dr Gerard Lyons |
| Risk Governance | Richard Sheath and Jonathan Hayward |
| The Board and Malfeasance | Sir John Egan |
| When the smoke clears | John Kay |
| Russia under Medvedev | William F. Browder |
| Food supply and security | Peter Melchett |
| Lessons under Fire - Xerox. | Anne Mulcahy |
| The Vodafone Story. | Sir Christopher Gent |
| Regulation and Risk. | Sir Howard Davies |
| What is happening to value? | Alastair Ross Goobey |
| The Story of a Merger of Equals - CitiGroup. | John Reed |
| How do you accelerate growth in a slow growth environment? | Niall FitzGerald |
| The aftermath of 9/11. | Professors Fred Halliday and Charles Goodhart |
| Entrepreneurship and empowerment in business beyond start up. | Dame Stephanie Shirley |
| Assuming the edge of innovation is somewhere other than here... | Julie Meyer |
| What role for UK corporates in a technologically-driven global world? | Dr David Potter |
| The integrity of a modern corporation and how do you recognise it from the outside? | Sir Jonathon Porritt |
| Corporate governance - the modern Boardroom as a potential area of risk. | Richard Giordano |
| Globalisation - is it sustainable as we have known it so far? | Peter Sutherland |
| Unavoidable risk and avoidable incompetency. | Professor Sir Gabriel Horn |
| What I want from my NXDs and how I help them provide it. | Pehr Gyllenhammar |
| Russia - is there a new confidence and can outside investors benefit? | Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
| Singapore and the Tiger Economies. | Lee Kuan Yew |
| Destination India. | Mukesh Ambani |
| New Dimensions of Risk. | Sir Philip Watts |
| Moral Hazard. | George Shultz |
| Value Destruction. | Bob Monks |
| Global Energy. | James Schlesinger |
| Implications of Wal-Mart. | Bruce Wasserstein |
| Hong Kong after China | Sir Donald Tsang |
| Where would you put your best dollar now? | Sir John Bond |
| Some unconventional propositions on what is happening to the world economy. | Woody Brock |
| How will 21st century science and technology change the way we think and feel? | Baroness Greenfield |
| The new pay agenda and AGMs. | John Gardiner |
| An outsider's perspective on the new Europe in an increasingly globalised world. | Peter Brabeck-Letmathe |
| The new formula for continental Europe - monetarism over productivity. | Dieter Spethmann |
| A journey through the corporate criminal mind - some things to be looking for. | Jules B Kroll |
| What do shareholders really want? | Terry Faulkner |
| Creating a long-term culture of daily inspiration. | Chuck Knight |
| The deleterious effects of outsourcing thinking. | Blair Sheppard |
| The institutional bridge with Boards. | Anthony Bolton |
| The right balance of organic growth and acquisitions in the achievement of virtuous cycles. | Keith Butler-Wheelhouse |
| Changing relationships between politics and the law. |
Stephen Irwin QC |
| Lessons from Mutuality. | Sir Stuart Hampson |
| Globalisation - what is wrong with the UK business model. | Richard Lambert |
| Competition policy and competitiveness in the UK. | Sir Derek Morris |
| UK industrial policy. | Baroness Sheila Noakes |
| Service sector growth. | Rod Aldridge |
| Corporate initiatives in a divided society - Venezuela | Dr Alberto Vollmer |
| Global manufacturing success from a UK base. | Dick Olver |
| Transforming a company - Sainsbury. | Sir Philip Hampton |
| The Chairman's job in a modern PLC. | Sir Roy Gardner |
| Private Equity. | Guy Hands |
| Climate and Energy | Sir Nicholas Stern |
| Productivity and top management. | John Dowdy |
| Leadership. | Sir Tom McKillop |
| A Perspective from Germany. | Dr Gerhard Cromme |
| The Politics of Emissions at Brussels. | Sir John Grant |
| Global Security. | General Sir Mike Jackson |
| Retailing success and failure in the US. | Terry Burman |
| Opportunity India. | Sunil Bharti Mittal |
| Energy systems and climate change. | Jeroen van der Veer |
| The business response to Stern. | Richard Lambert |
| How are we going to measure companies in 10 years time? | Sir Mark Moody-Stuart and Mark Goyder |
| Strategy change when circumstances change. | Dr Donald Sull |
Minutes of the meetings are available on a confidential basis by contacting Leslie Dighton