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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001214659-17-002507
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	PX14A6G
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20170412
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20170412
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20170412

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AMERICAN EXPRESS CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000004962
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FINANCE SERVICES [6199]
		IRS NUMBER:				134922250
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			NY
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-07657
		FILM NUMBER:		17757932

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		200 VESEY STREET
		STREET 2:		50TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10285
		BUSINESS PHONE:		2126402000

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		STREET 1:		200 VESEY STREET
		STREET 2:		50TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NEW YORK
		STATE:			NY
		ZIP:			10285

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Arjuna Capital
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001703208
		IRS NUMBER:				475345511
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

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		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		49 UNION STREET
		CITY:			MANCHESTER
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01944
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(978) 704-0114

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		49 UNION STREET
		CITY:			MANCHESTER
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01944
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">April 11<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">th</sup>, 2017</div>

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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Arjuna Capital</div>

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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We are writing to urge you to <font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">VOTE &#8220;FOR&#8221; PROPOSAL 6</font> on the proxy card, which asks the Company to transparently and proactively address the gender pay gap.&#160;&#160; The proposal makes the following request:</div>

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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Shareholders request American Express prepare a report by October 2017, omitting proprietary information and prepared at reasonable cost, on the Company&#8217;s policies and goals to reduce the gender pay gap.&#160; The gender pay gap is defined as the difference between male and female earnings expressed as a percentage of male earnings (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).</div>

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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Supporting Statement:&#160; A report adequate for investors to assess American Express&#8217;s strategy and performance would include the percentage pay gap between male and female employees across race and ethnicity, including base, bonus and equity compensation, policies to address that gap, methodology used, and quantitative reduction targets.</div>

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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 36pt">Implementing the Proposal would represent a proactive step towards closing the gender pay gap.&#160; We believe the Company would benefit from taking a leadership position on this issue along with financial services peers Schroders and Virgin Money and other S&amp;P 500 peers, as research indicates attracting and retaining diverse teams yields strong financial performance benefits, while failing to attract and retain top talent has led to a female leadership gap.&#160; In the financial services sector, women are 20-30% more likely to leave the sector than any other sector of the economy.</div>

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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Gender pay parity is a significant policy issue:</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports women who work full time earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar men earn. The gap for African America and Latina women is wider at 60% and 55% respectively.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Forecasts indicate that, at the current rate of change, women will not reach pay parity until 2059.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">1</sup></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Regulatory risk exists as the Paycheck Fairness Act pends before Congress. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has proposed rules requiring wage gap reporting. Over the last year, California, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland have passed some of the strongest equal pay legislation to date.&#160; In the United Kingdom, all companies with more than 250 employees will be required to publish their gender pay numbers by 2018.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">2</sup></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Issues of gender pay equity are especially salient within the Financial Services sector:</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reveals female financial advisors faced a 61.3% pay gap in 2014, the widest of occupations reviewed.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">3</sup>&#160; A 2016 <font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Glassdoor</font> study finds an unexplained 6.4% gender pay gap in the financial industry after statistical controls adjusting for position and seniority, among the highest of industries examined.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">4</sup></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">1</sup> https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/R476.pdf</div>

<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">2</sup> http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/12/gender-pay-gap-reporting-big-firms-start-2018</div>

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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mercer finds female executives are 20 to 30% more likely to leave financial services careers than in any other industry. This indicates women are choosing other sectors of the economy, making it competitive issue that extends across sectors.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Oliver Wyman reports in its 2016 &#8220;Women in Financial Services&#8221; report: &#8220;The risk is substantial in financial services,&#8221; for firms that do not address gender pay equity.&#8221;<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">5</sup></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">American Express has a poor track record around pay parity disclosure compared to leading Financial Services and S&amp;P 500 peers:</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">American Express is reported to have a mean pay gap of 12% or $10,062, per PayScale.&#160; For top range earners, that gap is also 12%, or $13,600.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">6</sup> American Express has not published its gender pay gap.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Financial services peers Schroders and Virgin Money have published their gender pay gaps. S&amp;P 500 peers including Intel, Apple, Amazon, GoDaddy, Microsoft, Expedia, Adobe and eBay have all publically reported quantitative gender pay equity disclosures, reporting the percentage pay gap between male and female employees, and the compensation components to which it applies &#8211; base, bonus, and/or equity.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">American Express has <font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><u>merely paid qualitative lip service</u></font> to the issue of gender pay equity.&#160; The Proponent did not find adequate the information contained within the Company&#8217;s opposition statement, which does not address the percentage pay gap between male and female employees, and falls well below the level of disclosures provided by Financial Services and S&amp;P 500 peers.&#160; While American Express states: &#8220;We <font style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">feel</font> that our employees are compensated fairly regardless of gender,&#8221; [Proponent&#8217;s emphasis] the Proposal is not asking how the Company <font style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">feels </font>about the issue.&#160; Instead, investors expect quantitative disclosures that address a society-wide gap that has persisted for decades, one of the largest reported industry pay gaps, and an employee reported gap per PayScale.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">American Express&#8217;s workforce diversity disclosure fails to explain the disparity between the gender composition of American Express&#8217;s leadership (30% female) and its broader workforce (57% female).&#160; Specifically, the fact that 57% of the company&#8217;s workforce is female, while only 30% of its management team suggests that the Company has struggled to attract and retain qualified female employees and promote them into leadership roles.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">American Express&#8217;s failure to manage gender pay parity issues could place the Company at a competitive disadvantage.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">American Express&#8217;s operational risk factors relating to gender pay parity issues may include failing to cultivate and retain qualified female employees.&#160; Given the pay equity disclosures of its Financial Services and S&amp;P 500 peers, American Express is at an operational/competitive disadvantage in its ability to attract and retain top talent.&#160; This is particularly salient, as Mercer finds female executives are 20 to 30&#160;percent more likely to leave financial services careers than in any other industry, making it a competitive issue that extends across sectors.</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">American Express could suffer reputational damage if the company fails to disclose its gender pay gap and set hard targets around ameliorating existing pay parity issues. Reputational damage could result in lost business, damaging shareholder value.&#160; Macy&#8217;s and Kroger lost business due to boycotts following their announced opposition to progressive gender pay parity legislation in Texas.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">7</sup></div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Research from Catalyst and McKinsey indicates that men and women think, lead, and solve problems differently and that a diversity of approaches leads to more innovation and financial results.<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">8</sup>&#160;<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">9</sup></div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller">5</sup> http://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2016/jun/women-in-financial-services-2016.html</div>

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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">A great body of research indicates that a failure to create gender diverse teams due to an inability to retain qualified female employees as it relates to gender pay inequity may restrict American Express&#8217;s teams&#8217; ability innovate and compete.&#160; Similarly, American Express is exposed to reputational risk if it is not transparent and proactive on issues relating to the gender pay gap.</div>

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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Please contact Natasha Lamb at 978-704-0114 or natasha@arjuna-capital.com for additional information.</div>

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