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Governance Topic Of Lecture Jan. 23 By Erika Mantz, Media Relations Justin O’Brien, an international authority on corporate governance and regulation, will discuss Taming the Corporation: Strategies in a Post-WorldCom/Tyco/Enron World Monday, Jan. 23, 2006, at 6 p.m. in Murkland’s Richards Auditorium on the campus of the University of New Hampshire. Free and open to the public, O’Brien’s lecture is co-sponsored by the UNH Department of Political Science Master of Public Administration Program and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics. O'Brien is a member of the law faculty at Queen's University Belfast where he heads the LLM Corporate Governance and Public Policy Programme. O'Brien is a former senior television executive and has worked as an investigative journalist for a range of national and international broadcasters including the BBC World Service, BBC News and Current Affairs and RTE (Ireland). Prior to returning to academia he was editor of Current Affairs at UlsterTV. O’Brien is the author and editor of several volumes and papers addressing corporate governance issues, including Wall Street on Trial, Governing the Corporation: Regulation and Corporate Governance in an Age of Scandal and Global Markets, and the forthcoming Trading on the Frontier, which deals with current issues in the financial scandals in the reinsurance industry. At present he is heading an international team studying the impact of Sarbanes Oxley on corporate regulation outside the United States. In addition to his expertise on corporate governance, O'Brien has written extensively on Irish politics. For more information, contact Professor Mel Dubnick, Department of Political Science, 603-862-4083; m.dubnick@unh.edu. |
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