Editor’s View
Compliance Week 2009: Meet,
Strategize for These Hard Times EDITORIAL
E very April, I write an editorial announcing the lineup of our annual Compliance
Week conference and encourage readers to attend. We’ve always had a stellar lineup
of speakers and discussions, and this year will be the same.
Publisher
Scott S. Cohen
scohen@complianceweek.com
But I’d be foolish to pretend anything else about this year is the same.
We are presenting this conference in a period of profound change—both the “sub- Editor-in-Chief
stantive” change of new laws and regulations that any new White House administration Matt Kelly
mkelly@complianceweek.com
brings, and the very ugly, practical change of a horrendous economy, budget cuts, and
diminished resources. Compliance and corporate governance executives must somehow Managing Editor
cope with both. DeAnn Orie
Let’s start with the basics about the conference itself. As usual, it dorie@complianceweek.com
will take place at the historic Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.,
Assistant Editor
and this year will happen June 3-5. We’ll have several hundred cor- Jaclyn Jaeger
porate financial, legal, risk, audit, and compliance officers gather to jjaeger@complianceweek.com
debate and discuss critical compliance and risk issues, from FCPA
programs and internal controls to risk management and executive Director, Production & Design
Erin Lynch
pay.
Two of our keynote speakers are among the most important regu- Contributors
lators around right now: Luis Aguilar, an outspoken reformist com-
Melissa Klein Aguilar Scott Mitchell
missioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Richard Neil Baker Richard Steinberg
Ketchum, CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Bruce Carton José Tabuena
They are among the handful of Washington players who will redraw Stephen Davis Scott Taub
the regulatory map in coming months, in ways that will affect your daily duties. Remem- Patricia Harned Lou Thompson
ber all those times you’ve asked: “Why on earth do we have to do this? Don’t they know Frank Lopez Tammy Whitehouse
Jon Lukomnik
it could be done more simply?” Aguilar and Ketchum are the ones who answer questions
like that.
We also have a full complement of speakers addressing the impleme