Justin O’Brien: Future of Financial Regulation - Events - IIEA - The Institute of International and European Affairs

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About this Event

05 Nov 2009 @ 12:45

The Future of Financial Regulation: Retrieving the Meaning of Accountability in Capital Markets

Audio Podcast:
Download Prof. O’Brien's keynote speech here.
Presentation:
Download the Powerpoint presentation used at this event here.

About the Speech:
As the fallout of the financial crisis continues to devastate the real economy, the design of effective and flexible regulatory and corporate governance rules, principles and norms has become a global policy imperative.

In this context, Prof. O’Brien spoke of the need to shift from government to governance, to accountability, to responsibility, and finally to integrity, a process which requires inter-disciplinary collaboration and an application of behavioural economics. He argued that only by embedding integrity through design can the inevitable gaps in any new regulatory framework be adequately resolved.

About the Speaker:
Professor Justin O’Brien has worked as a news journalist with the BBC and editor of television current affairs at UTV. He was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Governance, Queens University, Belfast in 2002 and subsequently moved to the Law School where he developed and ran the LLM in Corporate Governance and Public Policy. In August 2006, he was appointed Professor of Corporate Governance in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University.

Professor O'Brien has published many books, journals and newspaper articles (including for the Irish Times, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His most recent monograph, Engineering a Financial Bloodbath: How Sub-prime Securitization Destroyed the Legitimacy of Financial Capitalism, has just been published by Imperial College Press.

His other books include Redesigning Financial Regulation: The Politics of Enforcement (2007); Private Equity, Corporate Governance and the Dynamics of Capital Market Regulation (ed.) (2007); and Governing The Corporation (ed.) (2005).