Linda Lowson

Current Activities:

After conducting five years of rigorous research and analysis on Global ESG Regulation, Metrics, and Public Policy, I seek to facilitate connection, knowledge-sharing, and discourse amongst market participants, stakeholders, and regulators, toward the goal of developing comprehensive and consistent global ESG regulatory requirements.

Bio:

Linda Lowson is CEO and Chief Counsel of CSR Insight™ LLC, an independent advisory firm specializing in  Global ESG Regulation, Metrics, and Public Policy.  She designed, directed, and personally funded a major global ESG knowledge building effort (2007-2011), culminating in the CSR Insight™ Knowledge Base, which serves as a unique knowledge foundation for CSRI’s ESG strategic and regulatory advisory services, serving all market sectors.

Previously, Linda counseled corporate management, boards, institutional asset owners and managers, financial institutions, and governmental entities on a broad range of strategic, operational, transactional, finance/investment, and legal/regulatory issues, as an attorney with Shearman and Sterling, and as an Arthur Andersen Partner and U.S. Financial Services Strategy Practice Leader.  She also served on Arthur Andersen’s North American Financial Services Executive Leadership Team and Global Financial Services Thought Leadership Team.

Interests:

1. Encouraging and incentivizing the SEC, FASB, IASB, and EU regulators to adopt a comprehensive and consistent financial reporting and disclosure framework for “material” ESG issues.  These regulators are the major power players in corporate disclosure, a most powerful lever to effect rapid, consistent corporate behavioral change, so necessary to our planet’s sustainability.
2. Connecting with a community of policy thinkers and experts to debate new economic and financial market models, metrics, and drivers for the 21^st Century.

Email: consult [at] csrinsight.com