Spotlight on ESG Series
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Spotlight on ESG Series
Session 1 panel 1 (Start to 60 minutes): What is Driving ESG Reporting and Where is it Heading?
Moderator
Robert Mascola, Senior Director Compliance Programs and Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School
Speakers
Christina Alfonso, ESG Senior Advisor, Cimbria Capital
David Curran, Chief Sustainability and ESG Officer, Paul Weiss
William Jannace, Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law
Description
The session will explore the forces propelling ESG investing and reporting into the spotlight. Panelists will review the major legal frameworks in the U.S. and abroad and discuss what is behind the push for voluntary (non-legal) disclosures. Panelists also will look ahead to the future of ESG in a post-COVID world – is ESG just a passing flavor of the month? How will it evolve?
Session 1 panel 2 (60 minutes to end): Materiality Determinations for ESG Disclosures
Moderator
Barbara Porco, Bene Merenti Professor, Gabelli School of Business
Speakers
Jeffrey Hales, Chair SASB and Charles T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting, University of Texas Austin
Description
Company’s must assess which ESG risks are material when making disclosures, but assessing “materiality” can be as much art as science. In this session, leading finance and accounting experts will discuss how companies account for ESG risks in making disclosures and consider how to achieve greater consistency and transparency in the process.
Session 2 panel 1 (Start to 60 minutes): The Competition for ESG Performance Ratings – Risks and Opportunities
Moderator
Robert Mascola, Senior Director Compliance Programs and Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School
Speaker
Andrea Bonime-Blanc, CEO GEC Risk Advisory
Rebecca O’Neill, Sr. Program Manager ESG, Marvell Semiconductor
Peter Tomczak, Chair of the North America Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group, Baker & McKensie
Description
This session will examine how the drive for ESG ratings creates risks and opportunities for in house compliance professionals working for companies that are competing to show ESG performance to customers, stakeholders, and investors. It also explores the evolving state of ESG disclosures and the assurance of the accuracy of such disclosures.
Session 2 panel 2 (60 minutes to end): ESG's Impact on Supply Chain Risk Management
Moderator
Caroline Petruzzi McHale, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Speaker
Vera Cherepanova, Studio Etica
Alison Taylor, Executive Director, Ethical Systems, Senior Adivsor, BSR, and Adjunct Professor, NYU Stern School of Business
Description
This session will examine how supply chain risk is impacted by the drive for ESG performance, and what it means for compliance professionals.
Session 3 panel 1 (Start to 60 minutes): The Competition for ESG Performance Ratings – Risks and Opportunities
Moderator
Eric Young, Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School, and former Chief Compliance
Officer at BNP Paribas, S&P Global Ratings and JP Morgan
Speakers
Ellen Zimiles, Head of Financial Services Advisory & Compliance Segment, Guidehouse
Henry Engler, Senior Editor, Regulatory Intelligence at Thomson Reuters
Nick Gallo, Chief Servant, Co-CEO, Compliance Line
Description
This session will examine how ESG impacts the role of financial services compliance professionals, including in decisions relating to the financing of controversial industries (e.g. fossil fuels), and will consider related governance and whistleblower issues unique to Wall Street.
Session 3 panel 2 (60 minutes to end): ESG's Impact on Supply Chain Risk Management
Moderator
Eric Young, Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School, and former Chief Compliance
Officer at BNP Paribas, S&P Global Ratings and JP Morgan
Speakers
Hervé Duteil, Chief Sustainability Officer, BNP Paribas
Bruce Karpati, Global Chief Compliance Officer, KKR
Irena Gecas-McCarthy, Principal, Deloitte
Description
This session will examine new or enhanced securities disclosure requirements for SEC reporting and other comparable investor protection requirements, and how banks themselves are creating “green products” such as “green bonds” and other financing vehicles to further ESG objectives.
Session 4 panel 1 (Start to 60 minutes): How ESG Impacts Board Oversight of Compliance
Moderator
Doug Chia, President, Soundboard Governance and Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School
Speaker
Bill Ide, Partner, Akerman LLP
Judy Reinsdorf, Corporate Director Alexion Pharmaceuticals
Tim Hedley, CPA, Senior Advisor K2 Integrity
Description
This session will examine how ESG is impacting the obligations that Boards have to oversee compliance and the information that Boards need to fulfill those obligations.
Session 4 panel 2 (60 minutes to end): ESG's Impact on the Future of Compliance
Moderator
Patricia Harned, CEO, Ethics & Compliance Initiative
Speaker
Michael Duran, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer, 3M
Page Motes, Strategy Leader Sustainability (and former Compliance Officer), Dell
Robert Mascola, Senior Director Compliance Programs and Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School
Description
Practitioners will discuss key takeaways for compliance professionals as they consider the rising importance of the corporation’s role in global sustainability.