Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO of B. Accountability, a consultancy that works for leading companies and organizations within sustainability & climate change. One of these organizations is World Climate Ltd. who is hosting World Climate Summit in Doha, Qatar.
Helle Bank Jorgensen, CEO of B. Accountability, a consultancy that works for leading companies and organizations within sustainability & climate change. One of these organizations is World Climate Ltd. who is hosting World Climate Summit in Doha, Qatar. Helle has worked with sustainability and climate change since 1990 and has been a partner with PwC for 11 years based in Europe and the US.
Originally a business lawyer, Helle graduated with a Master of Science degree in business administration and auditing in 1994, when she also became an EMS consultant. She qualified as a state Authorized Public Accountant (CPA) in 1997.
She was the creator of the world's first green account, assisted in creation of the world's first integrated report and is working on Natural Capital Accounting. Further, she is the principle organizer for NVIR, the CEO/Investor-network for Business Ethics and Non-Financial Reporting, and has led many international assignments within strategy, supply chain responsibility, reporting, stakeholder engagement and assurance.
Helle is a co-author of many international publications and books on these issues and is often interviewed by newspapers and trade magazines.
Helle also serves as an Act Now Ambassador and is on the board of Rethink Sustainability and the advisory board of the Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series and has served on many boards and expert groups such as; chair of the European Sustainability Reporting Association, Board of CSR Europe, Board of European Policy Centre, Sustainability Policy Group of FEE (Institute of European Accountants), member of the Council for International Development Cooperation (advisory council to DANIDA -- the Danish International Development Agency), International associate of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) -- University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
