Following the European Economic and Social Committee’s Opinion (SOC/475) on
“Gender Balance on Company Boards”, the Female Board Pool Belgium in association with the IFPM Center for Corporate Governance at St. Gallen University / Switzerland, European Professional Women’s Network / Brussels Chapter (PWI), and ASTIA, have the pleasure to invite you to a debate jointly organised with the European Economic and Social Committee:
Pioneering New Paths: Databases for Gender Balance
in European Boardrooms
on 28 May 2013
from 09:00 a.m. to 12:00 CET
at the European Economic and Social Committee
Rue de Trèves 74, 1040 Brussels (Room TRE 7701/7th floor)
Context: As European companies are preparing to comply with new legislation proposed by EU Commissioner Viviane Reding to ensure gender balance on corporate boards, many organisations are building pipelines of board-ready and board-experienced women, talent-scouting qualified senior female executives for European boardrooms. This event seeks to engage a discussion on the value of databases to help place women on public and private company boards across Europe.
Programme
08.30 Registration
09.00 Welcome
Madi Sharma, European Economic and Social Committee, Member of the Employers’ Group, Rapporteur on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on Improving the Gender Balance among Non-Executive Directors of Companies listed on Stock Exchanges and Related Measures COM(2012)614final
09.10 Introduction
Evelyn Regner, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the JURI Committee on Legal Affairs, Co-Rapporteur for the JURI Committee on the European Commission’s Proposal for a Directive on Improving the Gender Balance among Non-Executive Directors of Companies listed on Stock Exchanges and Related Measures
09.20 Presentation of existing international databases
- · Claudia Ritter, President, Female Board Pool Belgium
- · Monica Pesce, President of PWA-European Professional Women’s Network/Milan
- Chapter
- · Armelle Loghmanian, President of PWI-European Professional Women’s Network/Belgium Chapter, Founding Partner of the “European-Global-Board-Ready Women” Initiative
10.00 Debate, moderated by Madi Sharma:
“Pioneering new paths: talent-scouting women for full participation in European Boardrooms”
- · Evelyn Regner, Member of the European Parliament
- · Fatima Ribiero, Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs, Unit “Gender Equality”
- · Armelle Loghmanian, President of PWI-European Professional Women’s Net-work/Belgium Chapter
- · Paula Baptista, Director, Female Board Pool Belgium
- Supreetee Saddul, Independent Director and Business Advisor, Female Board Pool Luxembourg Conference Speaker
10.45 Debate conclusions
· Henri Malosse, President of the European Economic and Social Committee
11.00 Plenary discussion with seminar participants
11.30 Conclusions
Registration mandatory before 23rd May midnight
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