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Appendix B
APPENDIX B
Biographies of Speakers
ANTONIO BORGES is Managing Director
& Vice Chairman at Goldman Sachs and
Chairman of the European Corporate
Governance Institute. Prior to his work with GS,
he was Dean of INSEAD between 1993 and
2000. He has also taught at the University of
Lisbon, Portuguese Catholic University, and
Stanford University. Between 1990 and 1993
Antonio Borges was Vice Governor of Banco de
Portugal, where he took a leading role in the liberalisation
of Portugal's financial system. He also
worked at European level on the project of
Economic and Monetary Union. He is a member
of the European Corporate Governance Forum,
set up by the European Commission to examine
best practices in Member States with a view to
enhancing the convergence of national corporate
governance codes and providing advice to the
Commission. He
GEORGE S. DALLAS is Managing
Director and Global Practice Leader of
Standard & Poor's Governance Services
unit, based in London. Prior to this assignment
Mr. Dallas was head of Global Emerging Markets
for Standard & Poor's, encompassing emerging
markets activities of both Standard & Poor's
Credit Market Services and Information Services.
He has served as regional head for Standard &
Poor's Ratings Services in Eastern Europe, the
Middle East and Africa, and as regional head for
Standard & Poor's European credit rating operations.
Mr. Dallas is editor of the book
Governance and Risk (McGraw Hill, 2004), and
has written numerous articles and several book
chapters on themes relating to corporate governance
and international finance. He is a member
of the European Corporate Governance Institute
and a member of the steering committee of the
European Corporate Governance Training
Network.
DR PAUL FLATHER is Secretary–
General of the Europaeum, an association
of leading European Universities, and
Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He was the
founding Secretary-General of the Central
European University (1990-1994) originally set
up in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw by George
Soros, and director of international and external
affairs for Oxford University (1994-1999).
Formerly, he worked at the BBC, Times
Newspapers, and served as Deputy Editor of the
New Statesman. He has worked with dissident
movements in Central Europe in the 1980s, and
with race equality groups in the UK. He was an
elected member of the London Council in the
1980s (chairing its committee on post-school
education 1986-1990), and is currently directing
the Europaeum’s research project on the future
of European universities.
ANDREW GRAHAM is the Master of
Balliol College, Oxford, a non-Executive
Director of Channel 4 Television,
Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Oxford
Internet Institute (which he largely created) and
a Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. He
advised the Prime Minister, 1967-69 and 1974-
76; and, from 1988-94, the Leader of the Labour
Party, John Smith. He wrote (with Gavyn Davies)
“Broadcasting, Society and Policy in the
Multimedia Age,” now part of the standard
defence of public service broadcasting. Oxford
University has made him an Honorary Doctor of
Civil Law. His partner, Peggotty, is Dean of
Social Sciences at the Open University. He is a
passionate windsurfer.
SIR RONALD GRIERSON is a banker and
industrialist and has on several occasions
held full-time appointments in government.
His principal business posts were Managing
Director of S.G. Warburg (1948-1985) and Vice-
Chairman of The General Electric Company
(1968-1996). His main government appointments
were Deputy Chairman and Managing
Director of the UK Industrial Reorganisation
Corporation and Director-General for Industry
and Technology of the European Commission in
Brussels. At various times he also served on the
boards of Chrysler Corporation, R.J. Reynolds
Nabisco, W.R. Grace & Co., British Aircraft
Corporation (now BAE Systems) and
International Computers Ltd. He continues to be
on boards and advisory boards in Europe and the
USA (among others as European Chairman of
the Blackstone Group and Chairman of the advi-
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