New York Chapter Event

New York Chapter Event
What Board Directors Need to Know about ESG in 2021

Please join us on February 1 for a discussion on What Board Directors Need to Know about ESG in 2021. Our session will cover the recent surge of interest on the part of investors and other corporate stakeholders in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters and the focus that the current economic, public health, and social justice crises have only intensified. Our discussion will highlight issues of critical importance to board directors. What are the implications of entering the age of corporate social justice? What do investors expect of board directors on ESG? How should boards structure their oversight of ESG risks? What do board directors need to know about recent developments in ESG disclosure?

The discussion will be moderated by Teresa Clarke, board director and former managing director, Goldman Sachs and current chair of Africa.com. Panelists include: David Curran, Chief Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Officer at Paul, Weiss; Amy Domini Founder and Chair of Domini Impact Investments, a widely recognized leader in the voice for socially responsible investing; David B. Wilkins, the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiative on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. To learn more about our esteemed panelists, brief biographies can be found below.

As part of our program, we are thrilled to be joined by Susan C. Keating, CEO WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD). She will share perspectives relative to ESG priorities and also highlight WCD’s  2021 business priorities. 


Biographic Summaries of our Moderator and Panelists:

Teresa Clarke, an investment banker and internet entrepreneur, is the chair of Africa.com, which operates an advertising network of websites providing news and information about Africa to over 15million monthly visitors from over 160 countries around the world. The primary assets that have driven Teresa’s success are her ability to develop business opportunities, execute on complex financial transactions, and effectively lead large teams. Further, she has extensive experience with the boards of multiple public companies, and is well versed in financial, strategic and governance matters. Qualified SEC Audit Committee Financial Expert. Teresa serves on the Leadership Council of Women Corporate Directors (NY Chapter), is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the advisory board of the Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa.

David Curran is the Chief Sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Officer, Paul, Weiss. In this role, Dave has dual responsibilities – to work with the firm’s lawyers to lead its Sustainability and ESG Advisory Practice Group, and also to develop and promote the firm’s internal ESG practices. He is a recognized leader in helping complex organizations build resilience. In addition to his work in the ESG space, he has more than 30 years of experience in legal, technology, compliance, risk and ethics roles. Dave has led many popular Thought Leadership conversations with senior executives on a variety of topics where business and technology intersect with the legal, compliance and risk ecosystems, including Transforming Law, Big Data, #MeToo and many others.  Dave serves as co-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s ESG Committee, which aims to educate and engage New York lawyers, law students and faculty on ESG practices and developments through thought leadership and robust educational programs.

Amy Domini is the Founder and Chair of Domini Impact Investments, a mutual fund company with $1.6 billion in assets under management. She is widely recognized as the leading voice for socially responsible investing. Her passion for the field has led her to create three businesses and to write several books. She has been awarded acknowledgements of these efforts, including: Time magazine named her to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2005. That year she also received a citation from President Bill Clinton for her work with the United Nations Foundation. In 2008, Ms. Domini was named to Directorship magazine’s Directorship 100, the magazine’s listing of the most influential people on corporate governance. In 2014, she was awarded the Founders Award by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence for her advertising campaign (which ran in The Nation), urging investors to divest guns from their portfolios. Amy has served on a number of boards, including the National Association of Community Development Loan Funds (now Opportunities Finance Network), an organization whose members work to create funds for grassroots economic development loans; and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the major coordinator of involved shareholders who file proxy resolutions. She is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiative on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. David has written over 80 articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals and the popular press, and is the co-author or editor of five books, including one of the leading casebooks in the field. His current scholarly projects include Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies, Disruptive Innovation in the Market, the Reemergence of the Big Four Accountancy Networks in the Market for Legal Services, and After the JD: A Ten Year Longitudinal Study of Lawyers Careers. 

We look forward to seeing you virtually on February 1 at 5 pm EST. Should you have any questions, please contact [email protected].
 
When
2/1/2021 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where
Virtual Event

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