From: amachold@worldbank.org
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:58 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Re: S7-10-02

As an investor and a corporate governance activist, I applaud the SEC's
inclination to review the proxy rules.  Over the past twenty years we have seen
record-setting growth in our domestic markets as well as record-setting losses
due to fraud, corporate misdealings, sleepy boards, executive excesses and other
corporate governance weaknesses.  Any review by the SEC of the proxy voting
system that would strengthen the shareholders' ability to exercise their rights
in the companies they own would be welcomed by domestic investors and those
worldwide who look to our markets in defining their own.

Alyssa Machold
+1 202 473 6857