Democratising Corporate Governance. How to implement shareholder assemblies

The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development at London Business School invites you to a unique and timely conversation with three of the world’s most influential thinkers on markets and democracy: Sir Oliver Hart, Nobel Laureate and Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor of Economics at Harvard University; Hélène Landemore, Professor of Political Science at Yale University and leading authority on democratic innovation; and Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor at Chicago Booth and Director of the Stigler Center.

Moderated by Professor Sergei Guriev, Professor of Economics and Dean of London Business School, the discussion will introduce a bold proposal to democratise corporate governance by empowering mutual fund investors through shareholder assemblies, an idea inspired by the citizens’ assemblies reshaping democratic participation around the world.

At a moment when corporations increasingly determine outcomes on climate, inequality, and geopolitical stability, these questions are urgent and universal: Who gets to decide the future of capitalism? And how can investors influence the choices that shape our shared future?

This rare public gathering brings together world leading voices from economics, finance and political theory to debate one of the most ambitious proposals for corporate governance reform in decades — and what it could mean for accountability, investment stewardship and society.

Join us for an evening of cutting-edge ideas, bold proposals and live audience engagement with the thinkers reshaping the future of investor power.