Saxe Distinguished Lecture on October 25th
Charles M. Elson, the Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair in Corporate
Governance at the University of Delaware, is this year’s
guest speaker at the Emanuel Saxe Distinguished Lecture in
Accounting. He will speak on “Enron and the
Necessity of the Objective Proximate Monitor”.
The annual lecture takes place on Monday, October 25 in the
Newman Conference Center on the seventh floor of 151 East
25th Street. The event is sponsored by the Stan Ross Department
of Accountancy and is free and open to all students.
Professor Elson is an expert on corporate governance and securities
regulations, serving as an advisor and director to a range
of corporations and nonprofit organizations. A graduate of
Harvard College and the University of Virginia Law School,
he taught at the Stetson University College of Law in St.
Petersburg, Florida before joining the University of Delaware.
