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Oxford Vice-Chancellor hosts India Oxford Business Forum

14 March 2008

On Friday 14 March, a high-powered panel of global leaders will take part in the Oxford India Business Forum in Mumbai. The Forum will provide a platform for business leaders, academics and policy makers to debate and explore the role of corporate governance and capital markets across the globe, including India.

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Dr John Hood, will host the forum at which the Dean of the University’s Saïd Business School, Professor Colin Mayer, will give the keynote address. Professor Mayer is himself a renowned expert in the field of corporate governance and is a founder member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Among the speakers are US Senator Paul Sarbanes and the Honorable Michael G Oxley who co-authored the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002. The Act holds companies liable for unethical actions and has transformed the business world and restored public confidence in Wall Street.
US Senator Paul Sarbanes led the charge to reform the business world and regain investor confidence following the corporate scandals involving Enron, Worldcom and many other firms. Co-author the Honorable Michael G Oxley was appointed Vice Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market Inc in March 2007. In this capacity, he serves the NASDAQ executive management team and Board with his expertise in public policy, corporate counselling, financial services and capital markets. He also works with NASDAQ listed companies to increase visibility of the exchanges’ market excellence, business and policy issues.

Professor Mayer said: ‘Corporate governance has risen to the top of the policy agenda over the last few years. It is now recognised as being critical to both corporate and economic performance and at the heart of the competitive strength of nations.  We have witnessed in this past decade how major corporate scandals can have significant implications for the regulation of corporate sectors and financial markets in different countries. Nowhere has this been more in evidence than in the US, and both Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley have been at the centre of recent reforms and debates. We are delighted to have them with us at the third Oxford India Business Forum in Mumbai, along with a panel of globally renowned speakers in the area of corporate governance and capital markets.’

As well as Professor Colin Mayer, the speakers are:

  • Paul Sarbanes, former US Senator and co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • Michael Oxley, Vice Chairman, NASDAQ, and co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • James Turley, Chairman, Ernst & Young
  • Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Commerce, Government of India
  • Peter Sherratt, Vice Chairman, Chief Legal Officer Europe and Asia, Lehman Brothers
  • M. Damodaran, former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India

The Forum is one of the annual activities of the Oxford University India Business Centre, which is located at the University’s Saïd Business School in Oxford. Dr Hood announced the establishment of the Oxford University India Business Centre and a new Chair in Indian Business Studies during his last visit to India in January 2008.

This is the third Oxford India Business Forum and will attract around 200 invited delegates. They will include well-known names from leading corporations in India, senior government ministers, and influential leaders and academics from across the globe.
For more information, please contact the University of Oxford Press Office on 01865 862837 or email: press.office@admin.ox.ac.uk Photographs of Dr John Hood, Professor Colin Mayer, Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley will be available after the Forum, email: press.office@admin.ox.ac.uk   

Notes to editors

  • Oxford University’s Said Business School was established in 1996. It is one of Europe’s youngest and most entrepreneurial business schools, with a reputation for innovative business education. The School combines the highest standards of academic rigour with a practical understanding of business and wealth creation. The faculty is engaged in boundary-extending research on key management issues, in dialogue with the wider intellectual community and with practitioners.
  • The Oxford University India Business Centre will address major business issues affecting India, through collaborative research between academics in Oxford, India and elsewhere. The Centre has been generously supported by the Lavasa Corporation.  Lavasa have endowed a new Chair, the Ajit Gulabchand Professor of Indian Business Studies at the University of Oxford, named after Lavasa’s Chairman. One of the key activities of The Oxford University India Business Centre will be to develop a range of custom and open executive education programmes which will be delivered in India at a new facility located in Lavasa, near Pune. A scoping study with companies located in India and elsewhere is underway to begin development of these programmes, which will first be delivered in early 2010.

 

 

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