Programme

ENHANCING RUSSIAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STANDARDS

Russia’s New Horizons
Panel
Pavilion 4, Conference Hall 4.3

Raising Russia’s corporate governance standards to those of the OECD is important in the race for global investment. What is the current state of investment-related regulation and how can it be improved?

Moderator:
Olga Dergunova , Chairman of the Management Board, VTB Bank

Panellists
Alexander Afanasiev , Chairman of the Executive Board, Moscow Exchange
Andrey Bugrov , Senior Vice President, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, MMC "Norilsk Nickel"; Vice President, Interros Holding Company CJSC
Alexey Repik , President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia)
David Gray , Managing Partner, PwC Russia
Dmitriy Pankin , Chairman of the Management Board, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB)
Dmitry Peskov , Director, Young Professionals Department, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects (Agency for Strategic Initiatives)
Alexey Repik , President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia)
Alexey Repik , President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia)

Key moments

We need more women on corporate board.
David Gray
Top of the list of concerns of directors is around the quality and the availability of quality candidates to be on boards. You can have the best corporate governance code in the world, but it's about the people who are actually in the companies implementing them.
David Gray
A good board acts like a good string quartet or a philharmonic orchestra. They have complementary skills about the industry, about the company, about accounting, auditing, law, finance, all of which are part and parcel of a director’s mission.
Ronald Freeman