About
Rachel Stern serves as the Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Global Head of Strategic Resources of FactSet (NYSE, NASDAQ: FDS), a leading global financial information services company. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Team. In addition to Legal and Compliance, her mandate includes Enterprise Risk Management, Real Estate Strategy, Facilities Management, and Offshore Site Management of Centers of Excellence in India, the Philippines and Latvia. Her operational experience covers M&A, Investor Relations, Data Procurement and Governance, and Human Resources. She was the company’s first Executive Sponsor of its Women’s Business Resource Group. Prior to joining FactSet, Ms. Stern was a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and clerked for the late Chancellor William Allen of the Delaware Court of Chancery.
Ms. Stern earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University, an M.A. with distinction from the University of London, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was an Executive Editor of the Law Review. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Vienna. She is admitted to the bar in New York and Washington, D.C. and as House Counsel in Connecticut, and is FINRA certified Series 7 and 24.