The Business Value of Addressing the Coming SEC Rules on ESG

Judson Aiken
Judson Aiken AuditBoard
Lee Ballin
Lee Ballin Deloitte & Touche LLP

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Judson Aiken is a Senior Director of ESG Solutions driving strategic growth across AuditBoard’s Enterprise Risk Management and ESG customer base, with an emphasis on product development. Prior to AuditBoard, Judson was at Ernst & Young in their Risk Advisory practice supporting enterprise risk management, SOX, and internal audit.

Lee Ballin is a Managing Director for Sustainability and ESG Services at Deloitte & Touche LLP working with clients to help address their sustainability strategy and non-financial reporting disclosures. Lee is a strategic thinker, innovator, and highly sought-after public speaker on sustainability, as well as ESG risks and opportunities for the business, financial, regulatory, and NGO communities. He has over a decade of experience working at the intersection of sustainability, business, and finance. Lee began his sustainability career at Bloomberg, where he was a founding member of the Bloomberg Sustainable Business & Finance group. The group was the driving force behind integrating sustainability considerations into the firm’s operations globally and developing strategies to integrate ESG, climate, and other sustainability considerations into the Bloomberg Terminal. Lee established Bloomberg as a convener for impactful, must-attend conversations under the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit and Sustainable Finance Week banners. Lee then moved on to a business development role within BloombergNEF — a strategic research provider that helps companies, investors, and policy-makers navigate the shift to a low carbon economy.

He has served in multiple roles as a faculty member at New York University, both as an adjunct professor and advisor to the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Lee is a graduate of the Aspen Institute First Mover Fellowship Program and CORO Leadership New York. He sits on the advisory boards of the CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative and the steering committee for WBCSD’s Aligning Retirement Assets project. Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Logistics from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business.


Description

The proposed SEC rules governing ESG disclosures promise to usher in a new era of regulatory oversight for which many teams are unprepared. They may not know where to start or what compliance with the proposed rules looks like. This session covers the specific steps teams can take today, tomorrow, and in the future to prepare for compliance, reduce ESG risk exposure for their organizations, and in the process protect brand equity and stock prices, among other tangible benefits.

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