Alexa Holmes
General Counsel, Prosper Global
Alexa Holmes is Prosper Global’s General Counsel, leading legal affairs and guiding the organization’s approach to working in complex environments to ensure Prosper Global can achieve its mission while remaining compliant with relevant laws and regulations.
Alexa has spent her career as an international lawyer in the for-profit and not-for-profit sector. Prior to joining Prosper Global, Alexa was based in Kampala, Uganda, as Associate General Counsel at the Wildlife Conservation Society, where she served as in-house attorney for the organization’s Africa portfolio across 17 countries. Previously, Alexa worked as an associate at the Cleary Gottlieb law firm on a wide range of cross-border corporate and litigation matters, and at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. in Rome as a special consultant to the Legal Counsel on the closure of the Oil for Food Program in Iraq.
Alexa holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Brown University, and received her LL.M in European and Comparative Law from the European University Institute.
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ERM Master Class: Help Your Risk Management Program Take Wing
Author Michael Power says a great enterprise risk management program should take a bird’s-eye view of the organization, addressing risk holistically. But how do you get team members and departments working together to do that, while understanding and delivering on their own risk management responsibilities? Hear from experienced risk champions insights and takeaways from their journeys as nonprofit ERM architects and champions.
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