5th Edition of the Female Board Pool Seminar in Luxembourg

The limited number of women participating on board of directors of publicly traded and other companies has been the subject of much discussion and public debate in Luxembourg and throughout Europe over the last years. 

Several alternatives have been proposed to facilitate an improvement of the representation of women on board of directors. Regardless of whether any legal or political actions are taken to increase the number of female directors there now appears to be some momentum underway to diversify company boards, especially after the publication of Europen Comissioner Viviane Redings' proposal: 

http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/reding/pdf/news/ip20121114_en.pdf 

To help prepare Luxembourg and other European based companies for this situation and to ensure the matching of appropriately qualified and vetted female Board of Director candidates, this cooperative initiative has been launched to train and manage a Female Board Pool. 

This initiative is under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Equal opportunities in Luxembourg and in cooperation with the wellknown Center of Corporate Governance at the University St. Gallen/Switzerland. 

Maison du Coaching, Mentoring et Consulting a.s.b.l. FEMALE BOARD POOL

Contact : Rita Knott, President & Stéphanie Spies, Secretary 

Website : www.female-board-pool.com

E-mail : info@femaleboardpool.eu  

Program 

• 08:30 Registration and welcome coffee 
• 09:00 Presentation of the participants and the agenda 
• 09:20 Welcome video message of Mrs. Viviane REDING 
• Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship 
• 09:30 New corporate Governance: the board as a directing and controlling team 
• Prof. Dr. Martin HILB, Managing Partner of the Center for Corporate Governance, University St. Gallen/Switzerland 
• 11:00 Coffee Break 
• 11:15 Luxembourg legal framework of corporate governance - and getting women on board 
• Monique BACHNER, Bachner Legal, Luxembourg 
• 12:15 Common lunch and networking 
• 13:45 Workshops about learnings from other countries: best practices and challenges for leading women Speakers will be published 
• 14:45 The support of a cross-mentoring progam for women at board of directors 
• By Mrs. Rosa VILLALOBOS, Head of Macquarie Luxembourg Office and Director of Macquarie Boards, Mentee in the Cross-Mentoring Program for Women at Board of Directors 
• 15:00 Podium discussion about gender representation at senior management and board of directors' level - what has changed since Commissioner Reding's initiative ? Speakers will be published soon
• Speakers will be published soon
• 16:00 Closing discussion in the plenum 
• 16:30 End of the Female Board Pool Seminar