Lunch Speaker Series on Corporate Governance

April 29, 2009, 11:30am-12:45pm, Room A30, Watson Center, 60 Sachem Street, New Haven.

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Mike Lubrano
Managing Director, Corporate Governance
Cartica Capital

After the Satyam Scandal: What’s a Relational/ Activist Investor to Do?

Mike Lubrano is Managing Director for Corporate Governance of Cartica Capital (www.carticacapital.com), an emerging markets fund manager focusing on governance and relational investing. 

Prior to joining Cartica in December 2007, Mike founded, and served as Manager of the Corporate Governance Unit of International Finance Corporation.  Mike and his team worked with IFC clients, IFC’s field-based corporate governance advisory services projects and others on corporate governance issues across all emerging markets.  Under his direction, the unit developed the IFC Corporate Governance Methodology.  IFC and other development finance institutions apply the Methodology to assess the quality of governance of potential clients and to identify opportunities to add value to client companies by improving their boards, control environment, transparency and disclosure practices, and treatment of financial stakeholders.  During his tenure at IFC, Mike advised ministries, regulators, stock exchanges and investors on governance matters and conducted detailed assessments of the governance of financial and commercial institutions in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa in connection with IFC investment and technical assistance operations.  He is internationally recognized as a leader in fostering good corporate governance practices in emerging markets. 

From its inception in 2000 until 2007, Mike was the co-organizer with the OECD of the Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable and was the co-draftsman with the OECD’s Mats Isaksson of its White Paper on Corporate Governance in Latin America, issued in 2004.

Prior to joining IFC, Mike worked for the World Bank on the 1995 Mexican financial sector crisis and its aftermath.  From 1987 to 1994, Mike was a securities lawyer in New York with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, working with Latin American companies and their underwriters to access international capital markets.  While at Cleary, Mike served as underwriters’ counsel for the international IPOs of The Chile Fund (the first emerging markets closed-end investment company listed on the NYSE) and Compañía de Teléfonos de Chile (the first American Depositary Receipt (ADR) offering on the NYSE by a Latin American issuer). 

He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard College; his J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law; and his M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.