MEPs have voted through the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which is likely to be amended by ‘trilogue’ negotiations.

But the going is slow as the road is beset with difficulties, research on sustainability-related governance reveals.

Lewis, a former head of Linklaters’ finance division and co-head of the firm’s innovation group, will chair the executive committee.

Comiskey, who is currently the firm’s global head of corporate, will take up her five-year term on 1 July.