Mei is a chartered accountant with 20+ years’ experience. Originally a forensic accountant, Mei moved into reporting regulation in 2012, joining the Financial Reporting Council as a Project Director where she oversaw the delivery of several high-profile regulatory projects. Mei now leads Brunswick Group's annual reporting offer and acts as a senior advisor to clients on corporate governance, corporate reporting and ESG regulation and best practice, supporting them in crafting annual reports and investor communications. In 2021, Mei was appointed to the FRC's Advisory Panel as a subject matter expert and to the ICAEW Corporate Reporting Faculty Board.

Richard Barker was appointed as a full-time member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in 2022. Before joining the ISSB, he served as deputy dean and professor of accounting at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. There, he led Oxford Saïd's sustainable business initiatives. He has published a wide range of academic research papers on accounting and sustainability disclosures, chaired the expert panel of Accounting for Sustainability (A4S), and served as a member of several committees and bodies focused on corporate reporting in the UK and Europe.

Net Purpose is a London-based technology start-up on a mission to make impact measurement effortless for all investors by 2025. Sam has held senior impact investing advisory positions with B Lab, UN PRI, the IFC, and the Impact Management Project. Sam started her career at Goldman Sachs, and is a graduate of the University of Queensland and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC.

Lysanne has held a number of positions at Unilever, ranging from Group Chief Accountant, CFO of various Unilever businesses, Controller and she is now EVP Sustainable Business Performance and Reporting. Prior to joining Unilever, she primarily worked for PwC in both an audit and advisory capacity. She is also a Non-Executive Director at Genus plc.

Helen is a highly accomplished finance professional. With extensive expertise across several areas of finance, she leads the Group Financial Reporting, Group Financial Controls, and Sustainability Finance teams. Helen began at Deloitte where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant and then moved through increasingly senior finance roles at Cadbury Schweppes, BT and Smith & Nephew. She is a keen contributor to the developments in sustainable financial reporting and is part of the A4S Controller Forum.

Maria is a technical director in EY’s Financial Reporting Group, where she has worked for 7 years, preceded by 10 years in the audit practice. She has an interest in presentation and disclosure and is a member of the EY Global subject matters groups for Presentation and Disclosure, Revenue, Impairment, Crypto and the recently formed subject Global subject matter group on Sustainability reporting.

Ollie has been involved in the review of annual reports for a number of years. Ollie’s area of expertise is climate change reporting, with a specific focus on supporting our audit clients and audit practice on TCFD. Ollie’s focus is providing support and updates on corporate reporting developments to management teams and boards. This specifically looks at the current and best practices in reporting, the effectiveness of their corporate reporting and the implementation of new reporting strategies in order to respond to increasing legislation and the needs of key stakeholders.

Jock is currently audit committee chair of Barratt Developments plc and chairs the Audit Committee Chairs' Independent Forum (ACCIF). He is also non-executive chairman of Johnson Service Group plc. He was a partner for 20 years at Ernst & Young working as an auditor and advisor to a range of UK listed companies and he held several UK and global leadership positions.

Aadam is a sustainability finance specialist having developed a passion for sustainability through working on climate risk during the early stages of TCFD reporting. He started his career at KPMG. At Burberry, he has specialised in climate risk and has worked to implement Burberry’s digital twin and use this for modelling the impacts of climate change on the business. He now works in the specialised sustainability finance team, supporting the responsibility strategy.

Nick leads on Customer Success at Net Purpose working with a global client base of investors leveraging Net Purpose’s data platform for end-to-end integration of environmental and social outcomes data into the investment process. This includes enabling best-in-class impact reporting through Net Purpose's proprietary, quantitative products and services impact research. Prior to joining Net Purpose, Nick qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant at PwC where he developed guidance for assessing climate risk in the audit process and was involved in delivering one of the firm's first reasonable assurance ESG audits.

Veronica chairs Deloitte's Global IFRS Leadership team, which is the voice of the Deloitte global network on IFRS and corporate reporting. She leads Deloitte's contributions to the WEF IBC Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics, helped launch the UK Directors' Climate Forum – Chapter Zero, and was instrumental in establishing Deloitte's global response to climate change: WorldClimate. She is a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council, the G7 Impact Taskforce, the FRC Advisory Panel, Chair of the Advisory Group to the ICAEW Financial Reporting Faculty, and advisory member to the Hundred Group Financial Reporting Committee.

Ian leads the global ESG and reporting offer for Brunswick's creative business and develops corporate communications, campaigns and M&A communications for some of the world's leading businesses. He advises companies across financial, technology, consumer and energy sectors. He has over 15 years' experience delivering award-winning communications across the US, UK, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining Brunswick, Ian was Director of Corporate Responsibility at KPMG. He has an MA (Oxon) from Oxford University, reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Sacha's role involves facilitating the UK financial regulator to embed ESG across the wide spectrum of regulatory activities. He has been named a City Influencer by Financial News, being instrumental in shaping the UK's financial services industry. Sacha was recognised in the Financial Times as one of 'the 30 most influential people in the City of London' and was voted the top-rated Pan European fund manager in the Thomson Reuters Extel awards. He is a Fellow of ICSA and a founding member of the UK Investor Forum and was a member of their board for 6 years.