Moody’s President & CEO Ray McDaniel Addresses Corporate Sustainability at Museum of American Finance Lecture Series

Sustainability is no longer a fringe issue for large corporations, and on September 19, 2019, the Museum of American Finance hosted a fireside chat and panel discussion on the future of corporate decision making as it relates to environmental, social, and governance concerns. Moody’s President & CEO Ray McDaniel delivered the opening remarks and outlined Moody’s unique platform within the sustainability space as a standard setter for credit ratings, research and risk analysis.

“Our ambition to help inform environmentally and socially responsible decisions is reflected in the ongoing development of our non-rating MIS Assessments business,” said McDaniel. “In May, we announced our intention to create a carbon transition assessment framework for rated, publicly traded non-financial corporates, and in July we published a scoring framework to assess corporate governance characteristics of publicly traded non-financial corporates.”

Moody’s sponsored the program, which was presented at the McNally Amphitheatre at Fordham University. Additional speakers included David Cowen, President of the Museum of American Finance, and Jean-Yves Fillion, CEO of BNP Paribas USA and Chairman of CIB Americas. The program continued with a fireside chat between Martin Whittaker, CEO of JUST Capital, and Emily Chasan, Sustainable Finance Editor at Bloomberg News. Ms. Chasan also moderated a panel with Lynn Good, Chairman, President & CEO of Duke Energy, Dr. Barbara Porco, Director of the Center for Professional Practices and Chair of Fordham’s SASB Collaboration Governance Board, and Satya Tripathy, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office at UN Environment.

For more information on Moody’s work in the ESG space, visit esg.moodys.io.

Activating an environmentally sustainable future is one of the key focus areas of Moody’s broader CSR strategy. To learn more, visit csr.moodys.io.