Jeremy Osborn

Global Head of Sustainability at AICPA & CIMA

Speaker

Jeremy is an accounting iconoclast with deep experience of how sustainability catalyses systems change. Jeremy is AICPA & CIMA’s Global Head of Sustainability, supporting the accountancy profession through AICPA & CIMA’s members, students and engaged professionals in 188 countries and territories to embed sustainability into their organizations and then measure and communicate the value this is creating for their investors and other stakeholders.Prior to joining the Association, Jeremy worked for the Value Reporting Foundation (since consolidated into the IFRS Foundation) and the International Integrated Reporting Council, working with a wide variety of stakeholders and organizations to support the scaling and global adoption of sustainability accounting, integrated reporting and integrated thinking. Jeremy has also worked for EY, Accounting for Sustainability (founded by HM King Charles III), Accenture and Unilever, advising organizations across a wide range of sectors on how to integrate sustainability into their business model, operations and value chain, and then measure and communicate the multi-capital value which this creates. Jeremy is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, holds a D.Phil. on the history of the East India Company and graduated with First Class honours in Modern History from Oxford University.

He was honoured to be named by Accounting Today as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting in November 2022.