Linda Scott is a Managing Director and Associate Corporate Secretary at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she is responsible for outreach to shareholders on corporate governance policies and practices. She engages with institutional investors, proxy advisory firms and governance thought leaders. She advises the JPMorgan Chase Board and senior management on current and emerging governance issues; recommends governance matters for consideration, and facilitates communication between the Board of Directors and the activist investor community. She serves as co-head of the ESG Practice Group, which coordinates legal coverage of ESG issues across the Firm’s businesses.

She has 20 years of experience in global corporate governance, proxy voting and engagement, representing both institutional investors and issuers. Previously, she was Managing Director of Governance for Owners, responsible for the firm’s stewardship service program. The program operated from three international offices, providing proxy voting and engagement services on behalf of global investor clients.

She also served as Director of Corporate Governance at TIAA-CREF and Director of Investor Affairs at the New York State Common Retirement Fund. In these positions, she addressed a variety of governance, environmental and social issues that impact the economic value of long-term investments. Ms. Scott also served as Assistant Director of Communications for the New York State Comptroller.

Ms. Scott is a member of the Advisory Board of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, past Chair of the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute and past Treasurer of the Council of Institutional Investors. She is active in New York City civic affairs and has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations. She received an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Trinity College (Hartford).