Alison Taylor is chief sustainability officer for Archer Daniels Midland Company. In that role, she leads ADM’s Sustainability Committee and oversees the company’s global sustainability policies, programs and public reporting. She also oversees implementation of the company’s Respect for Human Rights policy and is liaison to the ADM Board of Directors Committee on Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility. Prior to joining ADM, Taylor worked for Siemens Corporation, where she was Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of the Americas. Taylor also worked on Capitol Hill as counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, and chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. She was previously a partner in the law firm now known as Davis, Graham and Stubbs, LLC.

Taylor serves on the boards of the Nicholas Institute at Duke University, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago, the Nature Conservancy-Illinois, and the Leadership Council of the Corporate Eco-Forum. She is also a member of the ADM Cares Committee and ADM’s Diversity & Inclusion Council, and serves on the external advisory board of the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Denver.