The Global IR Leadership Network brings together the top IR leaders from the world's largest companies. With emphasis on sharing knowledge and experiences, the Network focuses on solutions to the emerging problems facing investor relations departments at top corporations.

The new reality is that local country IR groups are fine in dealing with local issues. But today’s IR executive at large global firms must confront global issues including conflicting and overlapping regulations from a multitude of exchanges and regulatory agencies.

There is an essential need to learn how other IR executives at the largest multinational companies solve common problems. Through research based on in-depth interviews with top IR executives across multiple industries and geographies, IR professionals can learn how their peers are dealing with:

• Transparency and disclosure issues
• Changing nature of investor needs
• Developing their investor relations staff functions
• Conflicting accounting and reporting rules
• Making the most of their strategic relations with top management
• and more.

In addition, through quarterly Executive Forum meetings, top IR executives can sit down face-to-face with their peers, IR executives from leading companies. Free from the distraction of vendors, consultants and small firms, these IR leaders meet to discuss the latest research and the issues that matter to them.

If time pressures prevent a top IR executive from attending a meeting, the research staff of the Global IR Leadership Network will travel to members' offices and provide a personal consultation or staff briefing when the member's calendar permits.