Roundtable on Empowering Shareholders and Stakeholders and the Importance of ESG Disclosures

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On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. (ET) full Committee Ranking Member Waters will host a roundtable to discuss the importance of empowering shareholders and stakeholders to better engage companies they invest in, the importance of the SEC’s climate risk disclosure rule, the need to advance other ESG disclosures, and the importance of protecting the independence of (and promoting competition among) the proxy advisors.

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HOST: Ranking Member Maxine Waters

Witnesses for this one-panel hearing will be:

• Ms. Brooke Lierman, Comptroller, State of Maryland;

• Professor Shiva Rajgopal, Columbia Business School;

• Ben Cushing, Campaign Director, Sierra Club;

• Bhakti Mirchandani, Managing Director, Responsible Investing, Trinity Church Wall Street.

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Roundtable page: https://democrats-financialservices.house.gov/events/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=410581