• Sep 20 2016
  • 9:30am
  • Presential

Toward A Sustainable Economy: Transparency, Long-Termism, and the SEC

Websitehttps://www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2016/09/13/162393/towards-a-sustainable-economy/

Cosponsored by AFLCIO, AFR, CAP, CERES, FACT, ICAR, Patriotic Millionaire, Public Citizen, and USSIF, the event will be focused on the need for more corporate disclosure, and for the SEC to act on the demands of investors to provide it in multiple arenas. Issues like corporate political disclosure, climate change disclosure, human capital disclosure, tax reporting disclosure, derivatives disclosure and more will be highlighted.

Keynote:

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), U.S. Senate

Panel Introduction:

Tyler Gellasch, former Senate aide and Counsel to SEC Commissioner

Panelists:

Angela Hanks, Associate Director for Workforce Development Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Morris Pearl, former business executive

Cheryl Smith, Managing Partner, Trillium Asset Management

Cynthia Williams, Osler Chair in Business Law, Osgoode Hall Law School

Moderator:

Andy Green, Managing Director of Economic Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund