Governance Outlook Conference

The second annual Governance Outlook event to be held Sept. 9 by the Forum for Corporate Directors (FCD) will provide Southern California corporate executives and board members with a high level examination of what public company boards can expect to encounter in next spring's 2009 proxy season.

In addition, this year's event will feature a new FCD publication, "Benchmarking Corporate Governance Practices in Orange County, 2008," which provides an extensive professional analysis of proxy data from 56 public companies in Orange County for the most recent filing season.

The highlight of this year's Governance Outlook will be an expert panel discussion on what public companies will likely have to deal with when preparing 2009 proxy statements. The panel will be moderated by Richard Koppes, of counsel at Jones Day in San Francisco and former deputy executive officer and general counsel of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). He will be joined by Eric Baggesen, CalPERS senior investment officer, and Christopher Ailman, chief investment officer of CalSTRS, the California State Teachers Retirement System.