Welcome!

We are delighted to invite you to join us and other capital market leaders at the fourth annual Global Public Policy Symposium in New York City on January 14-15, 2008. GPPS IV will bring together more than 250 senior officials and executives from the regulatory, investor, corporate, and professional communities around the world to discuss critical issues in financial reporting and auditing. Based on our experience with previous symposia in Brussels, London, and Paris, we think you will find the program interesting, insightful, and provocative, with plenty of time for open discussion and debate.

Our objective in hosting GPPS IV is to provide an international forum for the exchange of views on how we can collaborate in maintaining healthy global capital markets and contribute to improvements in the quality, reliability, and accessibility of financial and other information that stakeholders need. Insights we have gained over the past six months from a series of roundtable discussions in different locations around the world have contributed significantly to our program development. We see GPPS IV not only as an occasion for discussion, but also as an opportunity to identify short-term and longer-term priority issues on which collaboration among capital market stakeholders might prove most productive.

This web site allows you to register electronically for the symposium and arrange accommodations at the conference hotel, the Grand Hyatt New York at Grand Central Station. You also can access program information, speaker biographies, conference papers, and other information, which will be updated periodically between now and January 15. Participation is by invitation only, and there is no registration or attendance fee. But please register soon. The registration process must be completed by December 15.

We look forward to seeing you in New York for our opening reception on Monday evening, January 14, and at the symposium on Tuesday, January 15.

Yours Sincerely,

Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr. Global CEO PricewaterhouseCoopers	James H. Quigley Chief Executive Officer Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Timothy P. Flynn Chairman KPMG International	Frans Samyn Chief Executive Officer BDO International
David McDonnell Chief Executive Worldwide Grant Thornton International	James S. Turley Chairman & CEO Ernst & Young