Fellowship Committee

The Institute awards the title Fellow of ECGI to individuals who have demonstrated scientific excellence or other outstanding achievements in the area of corporate governance.

The ECGI Board appoints the Committee and sets the rules governing the nomination of new Fellows. Professor Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University, chairs the Committee. Other committee members are:

	Professor Bengt Holmström, Paul A Samuelson Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Sloan School of Management, MIT
	Professor Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford
	Professor Roberta Romano, Allen Duffy/Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School. Yale University
	Professor Jean Tirole, Scientific Director of the Institut d'Economie Industrielle, University of Social Sciences, Toulouse

21 inaugural Fellows of the Institute were appointed by the committee on 16 July 2002. See press release and list of Fellows.

A further 6 Fellows were appointed in September 2003. See press release and list of new Fellows.

The Nomination Process

The Fellowship Committee oversees the nomination of new Fellows as follows:

	All current Fellows are invited to suggest names for new Fellows;
	Each current Fellow is invited to vote for up to 5 candidates;
	The names of those candidates who received three or more 'Yes' votes are then taken into a final round of voting where current Fellows are asked to approve or reject each of the names individually, with the restriction that they have to approve of the person they had voted for in the first round;
	New Fellows are then nominated on a simple majority of the current Fellows and the names are presented to the ECGI Board;
	Each of the successful candidates is then invited to become an ECGI Fellow and on acceptance, automatically becomes a Research Member of the Institute.