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Diana Lee is Senior Vice President with Teneo’s Governance team, based in New York.
Prior to joining Teneo, she was Director of Corporate Governance and Engagement at AllianceBernstein (“AB”), where she oversaw AB’s corporate governance efforts through shareholder engagement, research and proxy voting, chairing AB’s Proxy Voting and Governance Committee. In partnership with investors, she advised boards and senior executives of AB’s global portfolio companies on ESG, integrating them with financial materiality based on AB investment teams’ fundamental research.
Diana served at Council of Institutional Investors’ (CII) Corporate Governance Advisory Council and at International Corporate Governance Network’s (ICGN) Global Governance Committee.
Introduction A lot has happened in the sustainability world since we published our State of 2023 U.S. Sustainability Reports one year ago. The long-awaited U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate disclosure rule was legally challenged and halted within a few months of it being finalized. Ironically, California…
With the 2024 US proxy season nearly in the rear-view mirror, a few key trends and takeaways have emerged. Amidst an uncertain regulatory and political landscape, investors have remained supportive of management on average, as indicated by the modest increase in average voting across management proposals. Concurrently, the number of…
The 2024 proxy season is expected to be a challenging period for companies to navigate. The upcoming U.S. presidential election has fueled further political divide on ESG topics, and that political divide continues to complicate the domestic landscape. Outside of the U.S., Europe and other markets continue to mandate company…
This is the sixth and final report in Teneo’s ’23 & ESG Series. Other reports in the series include the top 10 takeaways and key statistics of 2023 U.S. sustainability reports, DE&I data within U.S. sustainability reports, a study of Australian…
The 2023 proxy season reflected a post-pandemic “return to normal” with investors balancing increased focus on financial materiality with ESG considerations. Below are our top 11 takeaways from the 2023 proxy season. 1: Institutional investors go all-in on financial materiality. Walking a thin line in a divided world of ESG,…
Since we published our last study on U.S. sustainability reports 12 months ago, political attacks on ESG have escalated heading into the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. As a result, companies are now facing critical questions on how to communicate their ESG strategies and initiatives, especially within…
