NEW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FEMALE BOARD POOL SEMINAR in Luxembourg, November 11, 2025

8:30 Registration and coffee

9:00 Presentation of the Female Board Pool Initiative and the agenda
Ms. Rita KNOTT, Managing Director of the International FEMALE BOARD POOL Initiative, Bereldange, Luxembourg

9:45 New Corporate Governance: the Board as a directing and controlling team
Prof. Dr. oec. Martin HILB, Managing Director of the International Center for Corporate Governance, and Founder of the Swiss Board School/IMP, University St. Gallen, Switzerland*

10:45 Coffee break and networking

11:10 Legal framework of corporate governance
Ms. Monique BACHNER, Bachner Legal, Luxembourg

12:00 Getting women on boards
Ms. Monique BACHNER, Bachner Legal, Luxembourg

13:00 Lunch and networking

14:15 Learnings, best practices, challenges and success recipes from companies for gender diversity on Boards of directors
Ms. Analia CLOUET, Secretary General, Member of the Management,
Banque Raiffeisen, Luxembourg
M. Guy HOFFMANN, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Banque Raiffeisen,
Luxembourg
Ms. Marie-Hélène MASSARD, CEO, Foyer Group, Luxembourg

15:00 Learnings, best practices, challenges and success recipes for leading women
Ms. Monika CHAUHAN-STOK, Managing Director, Crossroads Global London, United Kingdom*
Ms. Hanna PRI-ZAN, Independent Director, Tel Aviv, Israel*

15:35 The support of a cross-mentoring program for women on Board of directors
Katia Ciesielska, Independent Director, Luxembourg

16:00 Coffee break and networking

16:15 Next steps – strategic action plan for the seminar participants and closing discussion in the plenum
Ms. Rita KNOTT

17:00 End of the Female Board Pool Seminar

*Speakers may intervene via video conference / video registration

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