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New Blog Series Starts Next Week: ESG Professionals Dish on Biggest Challenges in Their Jobs Today

Jun 8 2023 #assurance, #climate, #compliance, #diversity, #environment, #equity, #esg, #human-rights, #investors, #social, #supply-chain

Next week, we begin what I think will be an impactful series of articles. We reached out to professionals in the ESG space and asked them a set of questions about their role, what their biggest day-to-day challenges are in that role and how they attack them. You will hear directly from practitioners with a variety of backgrounds such as:

Technical E&S professionals
ESG lawyers
DEI professionals
Climate risk management professionals
ESG auditors
Procurement professionals
Investment managers/advisors
Investor relations
Marketing/communications

While we created a question set for consistency, they each responded in their own words. Answers to our final question should be of interest to anyone working in the tumult of ESG right now:

What is the one thing that helps make your job easier than it otherwise could be?

Although our initial group of contributors is set, let us know if you would like to tell your story.

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The Editor

Lawrence Heim has been practicing in the field of ESG management for almost 40 years. He began his career as a legal assistant in the Environmental Practice of Vinson & Elkins working for a partner who is nationally recognized and an adjunct professor of environmental law at the University of Texas Law School. He moved into technical environmental consulting with ENSR Consulting & Engineering at the height of environmental regulatory development, working across a range of disciplines. He was one… View Profile

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