Seminar: Corporate Purpose Beyond Borders

SPEAKERS

Assistant Professor Roza Nurgozhayeva
Nazarbayev University, Graduate School of Business

Roza Nurgozhayeva is an Assistant Professor of Law at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. From 2018 to 2020, Roza held the position of a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Legal Studies, the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. She holds a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) degree from Cornell University. 

Dr. Nurgozhayeva is a member of the American Society of International Law. Her research interests include comparative law, corporate governance, corporate law, state-owned enterprises, and sustainable development. She presented her research at leading international universities, including Duke University, Cornell University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the National University of Singapore. Her work has been featured by the Diplomat, Nikkei Asia, the Oxford Business Law Bog, the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Blog, and the Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Forum. 

Professor Dan W. Puchniak 
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law

Dan W. Puchniak is a Professor in the Yong Pung How School of Law (YPHSL) at Singapore Management University, the Director of the YPHSL Centre for Commercial Law in Asia, a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and the Editor-in-Chief of the ECGI Blog. Dan is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of comparative corporate law and governance, with a focus on Asia. He has received numerous domestic and international awards for his academic research and teaching – most recently, the 2023 Cleary Gottlieb Law Prize. 

Dan’s research has been profiled in The Economist, The Japan Times, and The Business Times. His research has pioneered the emerging field of intra-Asian comparative corporate law and governance.

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