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Marco Becht
Executive Director,
European Corporate Governance Institute
Marco Becht is Executive Director of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and Professor of Finance and Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He is a member of the European Academic Council of Standard & Poor’s, the Executive Committee of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ECODA), and the Belgian Corporate Governance Committee. Previously he worked at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) in Madrid and at the European Commission’s Directorate for Industry (DG III). From 1998 to 2002, he was Scientific Adviser to the Committee on Corporate Governance, European Association of Securities Dealers (EASD). He has given expert briefings on corporate governance to the Group of Economic Analysis of the President of the European Commission, the senior management of Alcatel, the clients of Hermes Pension Management Ltd., the Euro 50 Group, the Italian Securities Regulator (CONSOB), the OECD, the World Bank and the German Corporate Governance Roundtable, among others. Marco Becht graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and holds a PhD in economics from the European University Institute (EUI). In addition to teaching at ULB, he was Visiting Professor at the Said Business School (University of Oxford) in 2003. His research currently focuses on empirical corporate finance, corporate governance and business history.