WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Republicans launch a full-scale attack on ESG this month, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, will host a roundtable with several experts 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.

WHAT: Roundtable on Empowering Shareholders and Stakeholders and the Importance of ESG Disclosures
 
WHO: Committee on Financial Services, hosted by Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA)

• 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.

WHEN: Wednesday, July 12^th at 4:00 P.M. E.T

 
WHERE: 2220  Rayburn (HOB)