Alan was previously CEO of the Chartered Insurance Institute, leading the premier professional body for insurance and financial planning. A chartered accountant with Ernst & Whinney, Alan is a Fellow of ICAEW, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and an Honorary Fellow of the Korean Institute of Architects.

Rosie Dunscombe (FCA), founder of Blue Crane Consulting, specialises in integrating sustainability into accounting and business strategy. A Chartered Accountant with a Masters in environmental economics, she has 20 years of experience in accounting and sustainability. Her work includes sustainability training for accountants, finance integration, and capitals assessments. Rosie authored the ICAEW’s Sustainability Certificate, led the Capitals Coalition’s Biodiversity Guidance, and serves on the International Sustainability Standards Board’s Technical Reference Group.

Neha Dutt is the Policy Lead for Greening Finance at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). In her role, she works to ensure the financial system incorporates nature-related risks and opportunities into business and investment risk management and decisions. Prior to joining Defra, Neha led country, sovereign and FI risk management for SSA at Barclays, and then LatAm and EEMEA at Deutsche Bank, for over 7 years.

David Gunn is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House where he leads the Sustainability Accelerator, working with non-state actors to explore new frontiers in the transition to a sustainable and equitable future. Prior to his time at Chatham House, David led a wide range of climate, strategic futures and innovation projects with partners including Allianz, UNEP, Samsung, Tate, Netflix, COP26 and President Obama’s Higher Ground. His current research includes pathways for regenerative design, new perspectives on the investment system and strategic decision-making in contexts of deep uncertainty.

Dato' Mohammad Faiz Azmi was appointed the Executive Chairman of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) in June 2024 by the Minister of Finance. He has over 38 years of experience in the audit and business advisory services in Malaysia and the UK. He was the leader of PwC's Global Islamic Finance Team practice from 2007 to September 2012. He was also PwC's Malaysia's Financial Services Leader and joint Head of Audit and led the ESG and Shariah Investing as part of PwC's Sustainability and Climate Change practice in Malaysia. He retired as a partner and the Executive Chairman of PwC Malaysia in June 2023.

Dan is a Chartered Accountant and former auditor who now helps businesses take practical steps on their ESG journey. At Kreston Reeves, he leads ESG advisory services designed to support any organisation take steps to being more sustainable and leads the firm’s own internal ESG work. Dan combines financial expertise with a passion for sustainability – supporting organisations to calculate and understand their carbon emissions, manage ESG risks, and build clear, achievable strategies that make a real difference.

Louise and her team provide business leaders with advice on the UK economic outlook and global risks and leads in setting out the business view on economic policy in discussions with senior politicians and policymakers. Louise also oversees the CBI’s economic consultancy business CBI Economics. Previously, Louise was the Director of Economic Policy at the CBI. Prior to that, Louise spent 13 years at HM Treasury as a member of the Government Economic Service.

Hannah is founder of Keartland & Co, which helps businesses to scale up and amplify their impact. She is a bold, strategic thinker who’s spent her career working in and with impact-focused organisations, including Innocent Drinks and Cancer Research UK where she was Innovation Director. She’s spent 20+ years leading innovation and change at director and board level with the unusual blend of having led both Innovation and Finance & Operations functions. She is also a TEDx speaker.

Freda is highly sought after as a moderator, emcee and trainer having worked with Fortune 500 companies. Some of her awards include the ASEAN Rice Bowl Awards for Malaysia Startup Journalist Of The Year and the Kanebo Exceptional Award for Voice and Outstanding Graduate by the Malaysian Australian Alumni Council.

Alexia is a UK-qualified chartered accountant with strong experience in sustainability reporting. She helps multinational organisations navigate CSRD, TCFD, and other ESG frameworks. As a current member of the ICAEW Sustainability Committee, and with extensive experience in global standard-setting and technical advisory, she bridges technical expertise with strategic insight.

Martin is Finance Director of Swire Pacific Limited and a Non-Executive Director of Swire Properties. He leads Swire Pacific’s ESG strategy and Sustainable Development Office and previously held senior finance roles across the Swire Group, including CFO of Cathay Pacific. Since joining Swire in 1995, after starting his career with EY, he has worked in Hong Kong, the USA, Singapore and Australia. A graduate of the University of Glasgow and a chartered accountant, Martin is active in sustainability and community initiatives.

As Head of Finance for Group Sustainability Reporting, Olivia plays a central role in shaping and delivering the Group’s sustainability-related disclosures, updates on ambitions and targets and regulatory engagement. A Chartered Accountant (CA ANZ), previously with roles in Treasury and Accounting Policy and before that at KPMG London and Sydney. She brings deep expertise in cross-functional collaboration.

Toby is a member of ICAEW’s sustainability team and leads the institute’s work on nature. He brings over 25 years’ experience in sustainability, including previous roles at Deloitte, WWF and in consultancy. His work focuses on engaging and collaborating with members to help embed sustainability-related issues into risk assessment, strategy, finance and reporting – and sustainable policy and regulation.

Alex leads ICAEW’s Audit and Assurance Faculty, which produces policy papers and thought leadership on issues affecting the profession, and practical guidance for members and the wider profession, including technical releases, guides, webinars and other events. Sustainability assurance occupies an ever-increasing proportion of his time, including recently, managing consultation responses on ISSA 5000 (international and UK versions) and on a UK sustainability assurance regime.

Richard joined ICAEW in 2005 to set up the sustainability practice within Reputation and Influence department. During this time Richard has led on the ICAEW’s thought leadership and engagement programme in sustainability.

Fiona Watson is Vice President at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), leading its Corporate Performance & Accountability work to integrate sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities into financial decision-making. A dual-qualified US/UK lawyer with over 25 years’ international experience, she has held senior legal and ESG roles at NatWest, Amazon, and Davis Polk & Wardwell. Fiona serves on multiple advisory boards, including EFRAG’s Sustainability Reporting TEG, and holds law degrees from University College London and Fordham University.

As Head of Finance for Sustainability, Hermione drives change throughout the organisation supporting all aspects of E, S & G. This covers legislation to strategy and the resulting operational aspects in between.

Udeshika is a senior sustainability professional and an environmental scientist, developing sustainable solutions for construction and quarrying operations. Udeshika brings extensive experience in Net-Zero strategy, environmental compliance, and ESG delivery. She is a former university academic and holds several international publications on green infrastructure solutions for urban air pollution and the built environment.

Dan is an experienced practitioner in economics, science, risk management, and finance. His expertise includes natural capital accounting, non-market valuation, nature-and climate-related risk analysis, sustainable finance, environmental-economic modelling, and carbon and energy economics and accounting. Dan supports public and private sector organisations on the use of natural capital data in investment decision-making, risk management, and economic analysis.

David became a member of the International Ethics Standards Board (IESBA) for Accountants in January 2024. He most recently worked as a Senior Director of Accounting and Reporting at Huawei Global Finance. He previously held several finance executive roles in the technology industry. David serves as a Board Member of the International CFO Alliance (ICFOA) and as its Chair of ESG. He is also the President of the DFCG's International Group and an Executive Member of the DFCG National Board. He holds technical advisory roles with various organisations in the US, UK, and South Africa.

Daria is a Director in ESG Reporting and Assurance in KPMG London and is the subject matter expert for ESG Assurance. Daria leads on a number of ESG and regulatory assurance engagements. Daria is an ACCA qualified accountant with over 15 years of audit and assurance. Daria’s sector experience ranges from FTSE listed to private organisations within the property, infrastructure, media, airline and energy sectors. Daria’s past experiences includes a secondment to KPMG Department of Professional Practices, where she focussed on technical accounting, Companies Act and reporting queries.