Cynthia A. Williams

Professor Cynthia A. Williams is the Roscoe C. O’Byrne Chair in Law, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law. Professor Williams publishes on securities law, corporate law, corporate responsibility, and regulatory theory, often in interdisciplinary collaborations. Her current work is on the obligations of directors and officers under U.S. law to incorporate climate change and nature into their strategies, oversight, and disclosure. Professor Williams engages in policy work through her membership on the Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance of the World Economic Forum; on the board of the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), part of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Programme; and was a co-founder and member of the board of the Climate Bonds Initiative. She is currently a co-editor with Profs. Roland Mees (ethics) and Dirk Bezemer (economics), University of Groningen, of a special issue for the Cambridge Forum on the ethics, economics, and law of climate finance.