Jane Lawrie | Influence 100
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Jane Lawrie

Global Head of Corporate Affairs
KPMG
UK

Jane Lawrie joined KPMG in the newly-created role of global head of corporate affairs towards the end of 2019 after leaving Tesco, where she had been communications chief since 2016.

Lawrie sits on KPMG’s global management team, bringing a career’s worth of experience in reputation management, corporate, digital and employee communications, public policy and sustainability to the Big Four accounting firm’s senior bench. In terms of sustainability, Lawrie and her team are instrumental in supporting KPMG’s ‘Our Impact’ plan.

She’s done this before: at Tesco, Lawrie was a member of the executive committee at Tesco and led the group communications function through the company’s turnaround, overseeing the board’s corporate responsibility committee and establishing a new sustainability program.

Throughout her experience, Lawrie has focused on stewarding businesses to make the right decisions to protect and shape reputation, overseeing the full spectrum of transformation from policy decisions through to digital investments. Before Tesco, Lawrie spent almost a decade with Coca-Cola, where she was public affairs and communications director for Europe, and has also held senior roles at Diageo and Boots.