Elizabeth Atlee, Senior VP of CBRE - 2024 Commencement (G&IP) Keynote Address

Elizabeth (Liz) Atlee, JD 1993
Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, CBRE
Board of Councilors Member, USC Gould School of Law

A leading practitioner at the intersection of law, business and global policy, Liz Atlee oversees CBRE’s expansive global Ethics and Compliance Program.

Her role includes identifying risks, and preventing and correcting noncompliance with laws, regulatory requirements, policies and procedures. She also has oversight of the firm’s data protection and privacy programs, which ensure compliance with domestic and international regulations. Previously, Atlee served as CBRE’s Deputy General Counsel of Global Litigation, Employment, and Intellectual Property and Data.

As a champion for elevating underrepresented voices, Atlee has been honored with the Professional Achievement Award from the Mexican American Bar Foundation. She has also been recognized three times as one of the 50 Most Powerful Latinas in business, entrepreneurship, and civic engagement by the Association of Latino Professionals for America.

Her notable service includes leadership roles on the USC Gould Board of Councilors; Latino Corporate Directors Association; non-partisan community organization, Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE); CBRE’s executive inclusion council; CBRE’s Hispanic/Latine Employee Resource Group (as executive sponsor); and CBRE’s Women’s Network Advisory Board. In 2021, she and her husband Steve (JD 1990) established the Elizabeth and Steve Atlee Endowed Scholarship, which supports Latino students at USC Gould.

Atlee earned her JD from USC Gould and BA in political science from Yale.