Panelist for Corporate Social Responsibility vs. Government Regulation: Janet Holmes

Vice President-Senior Credit Officer, Regulatory Affairs, Moody's Investors Service

Janet Holmes manages Moody’s Investors Service’s relationships with policy makers and regulators in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.  Before joining the Regulatory Affairs Team in early 2008, she was a Vice President-Senior Analyst in its Corporate Governance Specialist Team. 

Before joining Moody’s in 2007, Janet spent two years as a Senior Corporate Governance Specialist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.  Before joining the OECD, she worked for the Ontario Securities Commission, initially as Senior Legal Counsel for the Takeover Bid Team and later as Manager of International Affairs.  While at the OSC, she represented Canadian securities regulators on the Joint Forum (a global forum of banking, insurance and securities regulators) and participated developing various global regulatory standards, including the IOSCO Code of Conduct Fundamentals for Credit Rating Agencies.  She also spent a year on secondment with the UK Financial Services Authority in 2001-02 and conducted an assessment for the International Monetary Fund of New Zealand’s implementation of the IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation in 2003.  Before joining the OSC in 1998, Janet worked as a lawyer, first at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and then at Davies, Ward & Beck in Toronto, where she was a partner in its Research Group. 

Janet obtained an LL.B. from the University of Toronto Law School in 1991 and an LL.M. in Securities Law from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1998.  She served as Osgoode’s Assistant Program Director for the Part-Time LL.M. in Securities Law from 1998-2000 and has been a guest lecturer at law schools in Canada, France and the Netherlands. 

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