Helle Bank Jorgensen is a partner and sustainability and climate change leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S.

Helle Bank Jorgensen is a partner and sustainability and climate change leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers U.S.

Originally a business lawyer, Helle graduated with a Master's 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 serves as the sustainability and climate change leader in the U.S. and on PwC's Global Sustainability Leadership Council. Helle has recently relocated to the United States from Europe where she has worked with sustainability for almost 20 years, being responsible for PwC's services to enterprises within the fields of sustainability and climate change (strategy, responsible supply chain, performance improvement, corporate reporting and assurance of sustainability reports).

She is the principle organizer for NVIR, the CEO/Investor-network for Business Ethics and Non-Financial Reporting, and has recently led a U.N. Global Compact assessment for a major multinational corporation operating in over 150 countries worldwide.

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 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.