GE announced that Glynn D. Key was named to the advisory board of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL).
As general counsel, Key serves as the chief legal and compliance officer for water and process technologies for GE Power & Water. In this role, her global team provides support for a water treatment portfolio that includes chemicals, technology, heavy equipment, services and large-scale capital projects in 130 countries and for approximately 7,500 employees.
The Wharton-led, University of Pennsylvania-wide initiative promotes knowledge for business sustainability through world-class research, transformative teaching and constructive dialogue between top alumni, academic, corporate, government and non-government organizations. IGEL is a hub for business and sustainability, connecting and leveraging academic capital at the university to help business leaders of today and tomorrow create more sustainable industries.
Prior to joining GE, Key was a partner in the corporate department at WilmerHale, a legal firm that maintains offices in 12 cities across the U.S. and around the world. From 1993 to 1996, she served in the first Clinton administration at the U.S. Department of the Interior as counselor to Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt. At the department, she was the lead negotiator of the $700 million groundbreaking Everglades restoration settlement among environmentalists, local Native American tribes, the farming industry and the federal and state governments. Key began her legal career as an associate at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. She earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia.
Active in the community, Key serves on the governing council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs—a think tank devoted to the study of U.S. national governmental institutions, policies and programs—and the board of trustees of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. She has published many articles, including “The Global Business of Law” in the Bloomberg Corporate Law Journal in March 2012.
Additionally, GE also announced that on Oct. 29, 2014 IGEL and GE will host a conference, “Resource Revolution: The Energy/Water Nexus in Oil & Gas,” in Philadelphia. The conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges associated with the transformation of the global oil and gas sectors.
Heiner Markhoff, president and CEO—water and process technologies for GE Power & Water, will give a welcome address followed by a presentation from Paul Reig on the World Resource Institute’s report “Global Shale Development: Water Availability & Business Risks.” The conference will feature two panel sessions: "Power, Promise and Peril: Policy and Regulation in Oil & Gas" and "Accelerating and Sustaining the Water/Energy Ecosystem through Innovation." The program also will feature a Q&A session with Mark Brownstein, associate vice president of the U.S. Climate & Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund.
Source: GE
