Rebecca Bentley is Vice President of Global Public Affairs for Dow, a global materials science company with $55 billion in annual revenues and 35,700 employees located at more than 100 sites across 31 countries.

 Rebecca leads Dow’s Public Affairs team worldwide and manages a broad span of governance and enterprise-level issues for the company, including executive and employee communications, media relations and financial communications, corporate governance and M&A activities, as well as geographic, business and marketing communications.

 She provides counsel for Dow’s CEO, President and CFO, and is a member of the Company’s Operations Team, which is accountable for operational controls of the Company, including the productivity and performance of Dow’s business, functional and regional operations.

 Bentley joined Dow in Plaquemine, Louisiana in 2002 and has held a variety of positions since that time. During her tenure she has managed multiple enterprise-level issues including the financial media strategy for Dow’s multi-year transformation, which included the divestiture of $13.5 billion of non-strategic assets; the creation and restructuring of multiple significant joint ventures, including Sadara (Dow’s $20 billion joint venture with Saudi Aramco), Dow Corning and MEGlobal; multiple widespread corporate restructuring programs; and the merge-and-spin transaction with DuPont – representing a combined market cap of $130 billion at announcement.

 Prior to joining Dow, Bentley held Public Affairs roles with Georgia Gulf Corporation and International Paper Company.

 She serves as Chair of Dow PAC – Dow’s U.S.-based employee political action committee and is a member of the Dow Company Foundation board of directors. She is also member of Communications 50, the Arthur W. Page Society, and the United Way of Midland County Board of Directors. In 2014 she was named to PR Week’s “40 Under 40” MVP’s in the communications industry.

 Bentley holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from the Manship School at Louisiana State University, with emphasis in Public Relations, Marketing and Economics.