As ICAEW’s Head of Corporate Reporting Strategy, Sally oversees the development of ICAEW policy on UK GAAP, IFRS Accounting Standards, UK regulations for company accounts and non-financial reporting, including sustainability reporting. Most recently, this involved leading ICAEW’s responses to the UK Government’s three consultations on UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, transition plan requirements and oversight of a sustainability assurance regime. She also leads the delivery of corporate reporting content to ICAEW members and faculty subscribers. Having trained with Deloitte, Sally specialised in corporate reporting as a tutor with Kaplan Financial before joining ICAEW in 2017.

Bruno Gardner is Head of Climate Change and Nature at Phoenix Group, one of the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement businesses. He is also Chair of the UKSIF Policy Committee and a member of the UK Transition Finance Council. Bruno has spent the majority of his career working on climate change, sustainability and energy topics in strategic and commercial roles with organisations including the Carbon Trust and McKinsey. He
oversaw the publication of Phoenix’s inaugural Net Zero Transition Plan and leads their programme of thought leadership to drive the wider system change needed to deliver net zero.

Hannah is Chief Operating Officer at B4NZ and has over a decade of experience with the Big4 leading major transformation programmes and for the last 5 years has worked with executive leadership teams and boards, advising on ESG and sustainability strategy. Hannah has worked with major cross sector organisations, focussing on climate change and
risk management. In doing this Hannah has been compelled to work with market coalitions and initiatives which define the future ecosystem where finance can flow with ease and organisations demonstrating the right sustainable behaviours are financially rewarded. The challenges of facilitating the flow of capital to the real economy and working across innovative market solutions is what lead Hannah to join B4NZ.

Andrew Death is a Senior Civil Servant in the Department for Business and Trade and has been a civil servant for 23 years in a variety of policy roles. Andrew is currently Deputy Director for Corporate Reporting, Assurance and Governance. His responsibilities include leading a comprehensive review of corporate reporting for UK companies and leading the implementation of the ESG reporting commitments made in the green finance strategy. This includes the endorsement of ISSB standards and transition plan reporting.

Ian O’Donnell is Deputy Chair of UK Policy for Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), a business owner and non-executive director who’s excited by and loves sharing ways that creative thinking and new technology can help businesses succeed. A business owner since school days (Real Point – a design & marketing agency) he now also serves as a non-exec for other SMEs as well as volunteering with the FSB where he also leads on Net Zero, working with leading decision makers to develop policy solutions for a better environment for SMEs to thrive. Outside of work he’s a keen runner and cyclist and an advocate of active travel.

As ICAEW’s Head of Corporate Reporting Strategy, Sally oversees the development of ICAEW policy on UK GAAP, IFRS Accounting Standards, UK regulations for company accounts and non-financial reporting, including sustainability reporting. Most recently, this involved leading ICAEW’s responses to the UK Government’s three consultations on UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, transition plan requirements and oversight of a sustainability assurance regime. She also leads the delivery of corporate reporting content to ICAEW members and faculty subscribers. Having trained with Deloitte, Sally specialised in corporate reporting as a tutor with Kaplan Financial before joining ICAEW in 2017.