Alison Taylor works on challenges at the intersection of business risk and responsibility, including ethics and sustainability. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and Executive Director of Ethical Systems, a research collaboration within Stern that seeks to transform the ethical practice of business in the corporate world.

Taylor has spent the past two decades consulting with multinational companies on risk, anti-corruption, sustainability, human rights, culture and behavior, stakeholder engagement, ESG, and ethics and compliance -- including as a senior advisor at sustainability nonprofit BSR, a member of the Board at Venture ESG, and a sustainability adviser at Zai Lab, KKR, and Pictet Group.

Taylor is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Good Governance and the author of "Higher Ground: How Business Can Do the Right Thing in a Turbulent World" published in 2024. She regularly speaks and writes on all aspects of business responsibility and ethics, gives keynote talks, speaks on panels and podcasts, and does executive training at companies, conferences and events. She has written articles that have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Barron's, and Forbes, among others.

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