Hilary Eastman

CEO & Founder at Confluence Advisory

Speaker

Hilary is CEO & Founder of Confluence Advisory, a boutique strategic corporate reporting and communications consultancy founded on the belief that sustainability reporting can only be truly useful for companies and their investors when it focuses on what genuinely matters for the business.

She is an expert in sustainability and sustainability reporting regulation and is a member of the UK Sustainability Disclosure Technical Advisory Committee, advising the UK government on the endorsement of the ISSB standards.

Before founding Confluence Advisory, she was a partner at KPMG UK, where she led the firm’s ESG reporting practice, advising multinational companies on the implementation of voluntary and mandatory sustainability reporting. She also led PwC’s global investor engagement programme and developed and implemented PwC UK’s first stakeholder engagement strategy. She was on the staff of the International Accounting Standards Board, where she led the project to develop IFRS 13 Fair value measurement and developed and led the investor liaison programme.

She is chair of the board of CFA Society of the UK and, as a non-executive director, understands directors’ information needs when it comes to sustainability and other strategic matters.