Keynote speakers – Liz Logan, PwC
Liz Logan leads PricewaterhouseCooper's (PwC) Risk Assurance practice for Southern California and Phoenix, which includes Sustainable Business Solutions, Internal Audit, and information technology services. For the past two years, Liz served as the partner leading PwC's work as advisor in the U.S. to the Carbon Disclosure Project, an investor backed organization which holds the largest database of primary corporate climate change information in the world. She is a frequent speaker on matters associated sustainability challenges.
With over 20 years of experience consulting with companies on accounting, auditing, and compliance matters across a variety of industries, Liz is dedicated to assisting her clients as they address the challenges, and identify and respond to the opportunities associated with climate change. Specifically, she provides advisory and assurance services to companies across a variety of sectors as they address the challenges of current and pending regulation around carbon emissions reporting. Liz has worked with several U.S.-based airlines as they prepared to report under the EU emissions trading scheme, and has been part of a core team developing PwC's response to emerging reporting and disclosure challenges facing our clients around carbon and related emissions for the past three years.
Previously, Liz spent two years in PwC's National Professional Services Group, advising other PwC professionals on audit related matters. In 2004, she represented PwC on an AICPA task force associated with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, formed to address Sarbanes-Oxley for insurers.
Liz is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor. She received her MBA from Baruch College in New York, and serves on the Board of Minds Matter of Los Angeles.