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2023 Conference of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) at IE University in Madrid

Jointly with my colleagues Patricia Gabaldon and Juan Pedro Gomez, I am pleased to organise the 2023 annual conference of the International Corporate Governance Society in Madrid at IE University on 20-22 October 2023. The conference theme is Sustainable Corporate Governance. Paper proposals and full papers can be submitted until 30 June 2023. The keynote speakers will be Helena Viñes Fiestas, Amy Hillman and Zacharias Sautner. More information can be obtained from the conference website at https://www.ie.edu/icgs2023/.

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