Kate Driessen

Manager Corporate & Stakeholder Engagement at GRI

Speaker

As Manager in the Corporate and Stakeholder Engagement team, Kate is responsible for driving awareness and uptake of the GRI Standards, as well as the engagement of reporting organisations, key partners and users of the GRI Standards. She is a corporate responsibility professional with over 10 years’ experience developing and executing shared value partnerships and sustainability strategies in both the corporate and NGO sectors. Kate has a background in marketing and communications, is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional, and has served as a Steering Group member of the London Benchmarking Group (now B4SI). She has worked in The Netherlands, Australia, the UK and China, holds a Masters in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from RMIT.