U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to speak via video to the Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance, taking place on March 18, at the Radisson Blu Lithuania in Vilnius.
Secretary Clinton accepted the invitation from the BICG and plans to address institutional reform, good governance and transparency.
Kristian Kaas Mortensen, President of the two-year-old BICG, said Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian executives from business and government will attend the event to discuss key issues impacting corporate governance in the Baltics.
“It is is a wonderful time to have such a distinguished world leader share her views and vision of the world with our members,” Mortensen explained. “Our organization has just completed a spectacular year of accomplishments. In 2011, BICG’s project of the year will be reform of state-owned enterprises, and her appearance is not only timely, but will be helpful in moving the agenda forward.”
Also among the conference speakers are Sten Scheibye, Chairman of Novo Nordisk (Denmark); Bjorn Sprangere, Chairman of LKAB (Sweden); Morten Kallevig, Deputy Director General, Ownership Department, Ministry of Trade and Industry (Norway); and Peter Kastrup-Misir,, Partner, CompanyPlus (Denmark).
Conference moderator is Christian Engelsen of the Institute for Corporate Governance in Denmark.
