UKEB Virtual Outreach Event - ISSB Exposure Drafts

Christine is an Appointed Adviser of the Financial Reporting Council HK and a board member of ICGN, led by global investors responsible for assets under management in excess of US$70 trillion. She was a Member of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on AI; an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (FT ranks EMBA World No.1); a Member of the Greater China Committee of the Hong Kong Retirement Funds Association (2013 - 2015) and the Director of the first public-philanthropic collaboration programme for social innovation in Hong Kong.

Debbie is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of regulatory experience across both financial and non-financial reporting.  She is the Accounting Expert in the Business Frameworks directorate within BEIS, having previously worked in a variety of policy and monitoring roles in the Financial Reporting Council and the Financial Conduct Authority.  Her current focus is the creation of the Sustainability Disclosures Requirements regime (SDR) in the UK for corporates.  This includes the creation of a mechanism to adopt and endorse international sustainability standards for use in the UK and creating reporting regimes to enable companies to report against both UK adopted international sustainability standards and against the UK’s Green Taxonomy.

Gerbrand is the Head of Finance Sustainability and ESG. He is passionate to work with peers and regulators to drive the development of consistent and insightful reporting. Gerbrand has held a number of senior roles at Barclays including Head of Fixed Income and Non-Core Product Control, and Head of Group Financial and Regulatory Reporting, before establishing and leading the Planning & Stress testing Transaction Cycle. Most recently, he was Transformation Lead for Risk and Finance. Gerbrand joined Barclays in 2008 from Merrill Lynch and is a qualified accountant.

Jane is a fellow of CFA Society of the UK and a visiting professor at City, University of London. She spent 19 years at the Financial Times, where her roles included Financial Editor, Assistant Editor and Lex writer, and she continues to train FT journalists. She is also a regular columnist for the ACCA’s digital magazine, Accounting and Business, senior fellow at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation and an honorary fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Lois joined the Carbon Disclosure Project (now CDP) in 2004, she simultaneously developed a career in climate and natural capital corporate reporting. Lois is the founding director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board and also worked for the International Integrated Reporting Council as a Technical Director during the development of the <IR> Framework. Lois was a director at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development for five years. She joined the IFRS Foundation in February 2022 as a Special Advisor to the International Sustainability Standards Board.

Louise Dudley joined Federated Hermes in March 2009 and leads the ESG and responsible investment research strategy within the Global Equities team. Building on her experience developing factor testing platforms and enhancing the factor modelling capabilities of the team’s systems, Louise has applied this comprehensive analysis to ESG applications. Having delivered research supporting the returns from ESG integration, this has led to the creation of innovative customised product solutions and tools fulfilling client needs. Louise originally joined Federated Hermes as a member of the stewardship advisory business, EOS. Prior to this, she worked for Coca Cola in a financial accounting role having graduated with a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Durham. Louise holds the IMC and is a CFA charterholder. She is a board member of the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance Association and in 2017 was named one of Financial News' Rising Stars of Asset Management.

Mark leads the FCA’s policy work on sustainable finance and investor stewardship. In this role, he is responsible for several initiatives, including the FCA’s implementation of the TCFD’s recommendations and the FCA’s work with IOSCO on corporate reporting standards on sustainability. Prior to joining the FCA in 2018, Mark spent fifteen years as a central banker with the Bank of England (BoE) and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). He held a number of senior roles, with a particular focus on policy, research and supervision in the field of financial market infrastructures (FMIs).

Sabrina Curry has worked for United Utilities for more than 10 years, with five years’ experience in narrative reporting preparing the Group’s strategic report. Through this time they have driven continual improvements in their reporting, being early adopters with enhanced disclosures in several areas and moving to a broader multi-stakeholder view of value creation with a strong focus on integrated reporting. Prior to her current role, she worked in the Treasury function involved in financial risk management, and before joining United Utilities she started her career on the graduate programme at PwC where she worked in forensic services primarily focused on investigations.

Sarah-Jayne is a Chartered Accountant (ICAS) and Practitioner Member of IEMA. She has experience in sustainability reporting, financial reporting, application and development of sustainability standards, external assurance (financial and non-financial), policy and strategy development. Sarah-Jayne has worked at PwC and the Global Reporting Initiative and now works in standard setting and public policy at the FRC.

Seema Jamil-O'Neill is UKEB Technical Director. From January 2017 to April 2020, Seema was Head of Accounting and Reporting Framework at the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, where she led the team responsible for maintaining the integrity of the UK’s Accounting and Reporting Framework as the UK exited the European Union. In that role, Seema also represented the UK at the European Commission’s Accounting Regulatory Committee, European Council working groups, the UN Accounting Expert Group and at numerous UN conferences. Prior to that, Seema worked as an accounting standard setter at the Financial Reporting Council, specialising in the development of financial instrument and insurance standards. Seema started her career as an auditor and is a fellow of the Institute for Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.