IFC/OECD International Corporate Governance Meeting Co-hosted by the Ministry of Finance, Vietnam, Hanoi, 6 December 2004

A Consultative Meeting on Corporate Governance in Vietnam jointly organised by the IFC and OECD in close co-operation with the IFC and the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance took place on 6 December in Hanoi, Vietnam under the auspices of the OECD / World Bank Asia Roundtable on Corporate Governance. The aim of the Meeting was to promote efforts in Vietnam to raise awareness on corporate governance and identify possible future follow-up.

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Agenda  in English  in Vietnamese

Presentations

Welcoming Remarks:

• Madame Le Thi Bang Tam, Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance, Vietnam ( Vietnamese version)

Morning Session:

• The OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and the Asia Roundtable, Daniel Blume, Principal Administrator, Corporate Affairs Division, OECD ( Vietnamese version)
• Presentation by Daniel Blume, Principal Administrator, Corporate Affairs Division and Motoyuki Yufu, Principal Administrator, Directorate for Financial and Fiscal Affairs, OECD (Vietnamese version)
• Corporate Governance: A Working Definition,  Teresa Barger, Director, IFC/World Bank Corporate Governance Department, IFC
• Importance of Good Corporate Governance for Banks, Stijn Claessens, World Bank (Vietnamese version)
• Context: Corporate Governance in Vietnamese Banks, Phung Khac Ke, Deputy Governor, State Bank of Vietnam
• Paper / Presentation: Importance of Good Corporate Governance for SOEs, Daniel Blume, Principal Administrator, Corporate Affairs Division, OECD ( Vietnamese version )
• Context: Corporate Governance in Vietnam’s SOEs, Hoang Nguyen Hoc, Director, Corporate Finance Department, MOF (Vietnamese version)
• Importance of Good Corporate Governance for Listed Companies, Ronald Gilson, Stanford University (Vietnamese version)
• Context: Corporate Governance in Vietnamese Listed Companies, Tran Xuan Ha, Chairman, State Securities Commission (To follow shortly)
  

Afternoon Session:

• Corporate Governance in Asia: The Essence of Shareholder Activism, Hasung Jang, Korea University (Vietnamese version)
• Corporate Governance Practices in Vietnam Preliminary Survey Results: Nguyen Van Lan, Mekong Private Sector Development Facility, IFC, Nick Freeman, Mekong Private Sector Development Facility, IFC (Vietnamese version)
• Corporate Governance Challenges and Opportunities in Vietnam, Le Dang Doanh, member Prime Minister’s Research Commission (To follow shortly)
• The Role of Company Law in Improving Corporate Governance, Dinh Van An, President, Central Institute for Economic Management
• Paper ( in Vietnamese) / Presentation ( in Vietnamese): State Management of Company Shares, Pham Phan Dzung, Director General, Ministry of Finance 
• Corporate Governance in Vietnam ( in Vietnamese): A Foreign Investor’s Perspective Governance, Dominic Scriven, Director, Dragon Capital
  

Background Paper:

Corporate Governance, the Equity Contract and the Cost of Capital: Incremental and Accretive Reform Strategies (Vietnamese version) Ronald Gilson, Stanford University