Marcia Narine Weldon

Prof. Marcia Narine Weldon is director of the Transactional Skills Program, faculty coordinator of the Business Compliance & Sustainability Concentration, and lecturer in law at the University of Miami School of Law. She has 30 years of legal experience in a variety of settings and is the found-er of Illuminating Wisdom, an executive-coaching, business-strategy and corporate-training firm.She also is general counsel of MDO Partners and of a sustainable startup. Prof. Weldon teaches regulatory compliance, corporate governance and sustainability; business and human rights; transactional skills; and business associations. She has written several law review articles and blogs on compliance and ESG matters for the Business Law Professor Blog. Additionally, she has been interviewed by or featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, the Guardian, the Verge,Forbes, Agenda (Financial Times) and other news outlets around the world. Prof. Weldon spent several years in-house as the vice president and deputy general counsel, as well as the vice president of Global Compliance and Business Standards and chief privacy officer of Ryder, a publicly traded, multinational Fortune 500 company. She oversaw the company’s global compliance, business ethics, privacy, government-relations, environmental compliance, enterprise risk management, corporate responsibility, and labor and employment legal programs. She also served as the head of human resources for one of the company’s two divisions before being tasked with developing the compliance, enterprise risk management and privacy programs from scratch. Prior to joining Ryder, Prof. Weldon worked as labor and employment associate at Morgan Lewis in Miami and a commercial litigator at Cleary Gottlieb in New York, and she clerked for the Supreme Court of NewJersey. She currently serves as the co-chair of the governance committee of the Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade and as a coach for social entrepreneurs through Radical Partners. In May 2011, she testified before the House Financial Services Committee in Congress on the unintended impact ofDodd-Frank Financial Reform on corporate compliance programs. In 2012, the Secretary of Labor appointed her to the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee, on which she served for five years. She also served on the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust from 2014-17.Prof. Weldon has been admitted to the bars of New York, New Jersey, Florida and the U.S. SupremeCourt. She received her undergraduate degree cum laude in political science and psychology fromColumbia University and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.