Panelists named for SEC's IFRS 'roadmap' roundtable

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03 Mar 2007

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has announced the details of its upcoming roundtable on the IFRS 'roadmap'.

The roundtable will take place on 6 March 2007 from 10:00 am to approximately 5:30 pm EST, at Commission headquarters, 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox and European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy will each provide opening remarks for the roundtable.The roundtable itself will feature three panel discussions on topics related to the potential effects of a co-existence of IFRS and US GAAP models in the US capital markets. The programme:

6 March 2007 US SEC Roundtable on IFRSs

10:00 am Opening Remarks

  • SEC Chairman Christopher Cox
  • European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy

10:45 am The Effect on the Capital Raising Process in the US Capital Markets

  • J. Richard Blackett, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
  • Neri Bukspan, Standard & Poor's
  • Nicolas Grabar, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
  • David B. Kaplan, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  • Roberta Karmel, Brooklyn Law School
  • Catherine R. Kinney, NYSE Group Inc.
  • Ken Pott, Morgan Stanley
  • Samuel J. Ranzilla, KPMG LLP

1:45 pm The Effect on Investors in the US Capital Markets

  • Trevor Harris, Morgan Stanley
  • Dennis Johnson, CalPERS
  • Gregory J. Jonas, Moody's Investors Services
  • Joseph P. Joseph, Putnam Investments
  • Christian Leuz, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
  • Joel S. Osnoss, Deloitte & Touche LLP
  • Stephen M. Todd, Ernst & Young Global

3:45 pm The Effect on Issuers in the US Capital Markets

  • Meredith B. Cross, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
  • Robert V. Deere, Royal Dutch Shell plc
  • Denis Duverne, AXA
  • Phillip R. Jones, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
  • Donald T. Nicolaisen, Member of various Boards of Directors and Audit Committees
  • William F. Widdowson, UBS AG

Materials related to the roundtable including the day's agenda and a list of participants are accessible at www.sec.gov/spotlight/ifrsroadmap.htm. Real time audio and video webcasts will be accessible at www.sec.gov/news/otherwebcasts.shtml. Click for SEC Press Release (PDF 36k).

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