Alison leads BSR’s sustainability management practice and also works closely with our energy and extractives member companies. She focuses on approaches to sustainability through risk management, strategy, stakeholder engagement, transparency, ethics and governance, and organizational change.
Previously, Alison was a senior managing director at Control Risks, where she helped companies operate with integrity, particularly in high-risk environments. She has also worked at Transparency International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IHS Global Insight. She has experience in strategic intelligence, market entry assistance, risk consulting, due diligence, internal investigations, enterprise risk management, and ethics and compliance. She speaks and writes regularly on risk and organizational culture. She is a board member of the ethics organization Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School.
Alison holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Modern History from Balliol College, Oxford University.
Insights From Alison Taylor
- Featured Ethics (and Transparency) Scholar for May: Alison Taylor | May 1, 2017 | News
- How Newmont Ghana Empowers Women in the Workforce, Workplace, and Community | Apr 27, 2017 | Blog
- Alison Taylor at the OECD Integrity Forum: Embracing Ethics Beyond Compliance | Apr 7, 2017 | News
- The Five Levels of an Ethical Culture | Mar 27, 2017 | Reports
- The Five Levels of Building an Ethical Culture | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
- Four Stakeholder Engagement Trends to Watch in 2017 | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog
- Here’s How Collective Action Can Work in Real Life | Jan 25, 2017 | News
- Does Trump Spell End of ‘Era of Compliance’? | Nov 21, 2016 | News
- Is It Time to Overhaul Stakeholder Engagement? | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog
- The Future of Stakeholder Engagement | Oct 4, 2016 | Reports
- Hyper-Transparency Is More Than Just Hype | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog
- The Future of Business Ethics: Hyper-Transparency and Other Global Trends | Jun 30, 2016 | News
- Building a Social License to Operate in the Renewable Energy Sector | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog
- What the Renewable Energy Sector Can Learn from Mining, Oil, and Gas Companies | Mar 28, 2016 | Blog
- Compliance and Sustainability Teams Should Work Together to Strengthen Corporate Ethics | Mar 15, 2016 | Blog
- Seven Ways Companies Can Build a Resilient Culture | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog
- Making Collective Governance Work: A Q&A with Eddie Rich on the EITI | Jul 8, 2015 | Blog
- FIFA and Bribery in Qatar: It’s Time to Approach Corruption and Human Rights Together | Jun 25, 2015 | Blog
- It’s Time for the Energy Industry to Overcome its Ambivalence Toward Transparency | Apr 28, 2015 | Blog
- Q&A with BSR’s New Energy and Extractives Director Alison Taylor | Feb 12, 2015 | Blog
