The Joel and Lois Coleman

Social Impact Lecture Series

and The Wharton Ethics Program

present

Global Corporate Governance

Roderick M. Hills

Former Chairman

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Monday, November 20, 2006 4:30 pm

Roderick M. Hills is founder and Chairman of the Hills Program on Governance at CSIS, and is a leading advocate for effective corporate governance. He is currently the Co-Chairman and a trustee of the Committee of Economic Development. His long and distinguished career has included both service in the public sector, as Counsel to the President of the United States (1975) and Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission (1975-1977), and in the private sector, as a founder and partner of Munger, Tolles and Hills in Los Angeles and now as founder and partner of Hills & Stern, Attorneys at Law. Mr. Hills has served as Chairman and/or CEO of several corporations and over the years has served on over 20 corporate boards. He currently serves as a member of the boards of Chiquita Brands International, Certus, and Aklara. He is a founder, former Chairman, and currently the Vice-Chairman of the US-ASEAN Business Council.

Mr. Hills has worked as a professor at Harvard University School of Law, as a distinguished faculty fellow at Yale University School of Management, and as a visiting lecturer at Stanford University School of Law. He graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in 1952 and a LL.B. in 1955 and subsequently served as a United States Supreme Court law clerk.

Pictures taken by Helen Feng.
November 20, 2006