Katherine Stowe

Kathy Stowe is a Managing Director and the Head of Enterprise Risk Programs for Morgan Stanley’s Second Line Non-Financial Risk organization, overseeing the 2L framework for identifying and responding to emerging non-financial risks. Kathy also oversees Non-Financial Risk Governance and Training, the Firm’s Global Conduct Risk framework, and the Consumer Office.

Kathy joined Morgan Stanley in 2005 as a member of the Litigation Department, working in New York and London, where she handled civil litigation and regulatory matters on behalf the institutional securities and investment management businesses. From 2012 to 2017, she worked as the Global Litigation Chief of Staff. In 2017, Kathy joined the Global Compliance Department, where she worked to establish and then manage its formalized Compliance Risk management programs, and since 2022 has worked to establish and manage combined risk management programs for the Non-Financial Risk organization. She also serves as Co-Chair of the LCD Philanthropy Committee.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Kathy was a litigation associate with Kirkland & Ellis and a federal judicial law clerk in the District of Columbia. She is a graduate of Williams College and Tulane University Law School.