Rakhi Kumar
Senior Vice President, Sustainability Solutions
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Rakhi Kumar is the Senior Vice President of Sustainability Solutions and Business Integration at Liberty Mutual Insurance where she leads efforts to integrate sustainability across the global enterprise. As chair of the Climate Council at Liberty Mutual, she is responsible for developing environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration strategies for the different business lines in close collaboration with senior leaders and for advising in their implementation. She also co-leads the company’s Climate Transition Center, dedicated to advancing collective understanding of climate-related risks, impacts and resilience. Further, she represents Liberty Mutual in various industry working groups, including the PCAF Insured Emissions Working Group and Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure Forum.
In her prior role she was the Head of ESG Investing and Asset Stewardship at State Street Global Advisors. She currently serves as an Advisory board member of the Millstein Center for Global Markets, Corporate Ownership at the Columbia Business School and Persefoni. She previously served on the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure's North America Asset Managers Working Group and the Council of Institutional Investors' Corporate Governance Advisory Council. Rakhi has been recognized as a Governance Leader by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) for five consecutive years.
Additionally, Kumar is widely lauded across her industry, and has been recognized as a governance leader by the National Association of Corporate Directors, identified as a "Top 10 to Watch" Wealth Management Magazine in 2018, and was awarded the Abigail Adams Award in 2017 by the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, which recognizes women who have demonstrated a firm commitment to developing political, economic, and social rights for women.