Luz Rodriguez

Luz Rodriguez has ten years of corporate governance and investment stewardship experience. She has advocated for shareholder rights and regulatory reforms that foster trust in the global capital markets.

Luz Rodriguez serves as the corporate governance lead and contributes to the development and implementation of the investment stewardship program for the $60 billion Association. The Investment Stewardship Division ensures compliance with PERA’s proxy voting guidelines; monitors company engagement activity; and provides reports to the Investment Committee of the PERA Board of Trustees. Ms. Rodriguez is a deputy board member of the Council of Institutional Investors.

Prior to joining the Investment Stewardship Division, Ms. Rodriguez was the Director of the Legal Services and Corporate Governance Division at PERA. She was responsible for overseeing PERA’s administrative review process, securities litigation policy implementation, the coordination of internal and external counsel, proxy voting, engagement with companies and partnerships in which Colorado PERA invests, and reporting to the Shareholder Responsibility Committee of the PERA Board of Trustee.

After graduating with an accounting degree from the University of Colorado in 2003, Ms. Rodriguez worked in investment accounting and was responsible for the pension payroll for Colorado PERA, which is the 23rd largest pension plan in the United States and serves as the pension fund for over 630,000 current and retired Colorado Public servants.