About

Lucy Lopez is the chief legal officer and corporate secretary of Spencer Stuart, a global leadership advisory firm. She also leads the firm’s risk and sustainability functions and is an executive sponsor of the firm’s employee resource group for women. Lucy has more than 25 years of experience advising management and boards of directors on all aspects of international business and corporate law. She is known as an experienced legal expert within professional services and a humble and collaborative leader. Before Spencer Stuart, Lucy was deputy general counsel and head of legal for the Americas at McKinsey & Company, where she advised senior leadership on governance, geographic expansion, new service lines and risk management issues. Lucy started her legal career at Debevoise & Plimpton, an international law firm, where she was a corporate lawyer in the firm’s international and Latin America practice groups and focused on cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions. Lucy is a member and former president of the board of trustees of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City, a youth mentoring organisation. She has also served on Congresswoman Nita Lowey’s Hispanic Advisory Council and was recipient of the LatinoJustice Trailblazer award, given in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In 2014, Lucy was recognized by Mayor Bill de Blasio for her outstanding efforts to improve New York City’s communities in need. Lucy earned her JD at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and received her BS from Fordham University, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.