Judges announced for CSRD Awards 2025
Real Economy Progress is delighted to reveal our judging panel for the CSRD Awards 2025.
These are the 18 experts from finance, civil society, standard setting and supervision that will be deciding the best Wave One disclosures in six categories.
Structure
Nathalie dogniez
Nathalie chairs the European sustainable investment forum, Eurosif. She led PwC Luxembourg’s ESG & regulatory practices for asset and wealth management, and sits on the boards of various funds and fund managers.
John Willis
John is the senior director of corporate performance & accountability at the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. Until earlier this year, he was research director at think tank Planet Tracker.
Niina Turri
Niina is the chief specialist for CSRD reporting at the Finnish financial authority, Finanssivalvonta. Before that, she was a sustainability manager at real estate investment firm Kojamo, and spent two decades at KPMG.
Double Materiality Assessment
Guillaume Castelbou
Guillaume is a senior policy officer focused on sustainability standards at the French Treasury. He was previously at France’s Financial Markets Authority as a senior policy officer for climate and ESG. He was also been a sustainable finance specialist at EY.
Eila Kreivi
Eila was the head of capital markets at the European Investment Bank, where she was also a senior sustainability advisor. She’s on the board of Finnish state-owned financing firm Finnvera. She was a member of the EU’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.
Richard Howitt
Richard is a former MEP who helped create the Non-Financial Reporting Directive. He was also CEO of the International Integrated Reporting Council. Now he is a senior associate at Frank Bold, and a member of the advisory council at business association Amfori.
Climate Transition
Jean Boissinot
Jean is director of risk and research at the French Prudential Supervision & Resolution Authority. He was deputy director of financial stability at the Banque de France, and chair of the Central Banks’ and Supervisors’ Network for Greening the Financial System.
Ira Poensgen
Ira is a policy fellow at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Transition Expertise. She’s a strategic advisor to the International Transition Plan Network and former technical lead for the Transition Plan Taskforce.
Luke Sussams
Luke is the head of ESG and sustainable finance strategy (EMEA) at investment bank Jefferies. He was previously a sustainable research analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux, and a senior researcher for Carbon Tracker.
Stakeholders & Human Rights
James Corah
James has spent the past 15 years at CCLA, a UK-based asset manager that runs money for charities, religious bodies and the public sector. For the past decade, he’s been the firm’s head of sustainability.
Heidi Hautala
Heidi is a former MEP and vice-president of the EU Parliament. She’s a board member for the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and a special advisor to the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights.
John Morrison
John is CEO of the Institute for Human Rights & Business, and commissioner for the Mining 2030 Commission. He recently became a senior advisor to ERM, and has advisory positions at John Lewis and Tetra Pak.
Biodiversity
Thomas Viegas
Thomas is group nature lead at Aviva. He’s a member of the Office for Environmental Protection’s College of Experts and the A4S Nature Advisory Group. He’s worked for the Bank of England & HM Treasury.
Joy Williams
Joy leads nature-related opportunities for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Before that, she was the executive director for financial institution transition planning at the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
Johan Floren
Johan is the chief ESG and communications officer at $90bn Swedish pension fund AP7. He’s also a member of the TNFD, and the former chair of Sweden’s sustainable investment forum.
Water
Cate Lamb
Cate is a freshwater specialist at the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, and the CEO of water advisory firms CascadeX. She is co-director of the Blue Bond Accelerator. Cate head the water unit at CDP and co-chaired of SBTN’s council.
Allen Townsend
Allen is a senior programme officer for freshwater metrics and stewardship at WWF, and co-lead of the freshwater hub at the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN).
Monika Freyman
Monika’s vice president of sustainable investment at Addenda Capital, and ex- responsible investment lead for Mercer in Canada. She was director of investor initiatives & water at Ceres, the US-based responsible investment body.
A huge thank you to the judges, and to everyone who nominated sustainability statements – we received nearly 80 submissions from companies, service providers, regulators and NGOs.
Shortlists are now with our judges for the summer, and we’ll announce the winners later this year.