The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced the appointment of Eelco van der Enden as its new CEO.
Mr van der Enden has been a partner with PwC Netherlands since 2007 and has over 20 years of experience in financial and sustainability senior management roles.
He will join GRI in 2022 from his current position as global ESG platform leader for tax, legal, people and organisation services at PwC.
“With corporate transparency on the global agenda like never before, Eelco brings the expertise and energy we need to deliver our robust independent standards and accelerate our engagement with partners around the world,” said GRI chair Eric Hespenheide.
“I believe he will help GRI build on its position of strength, as provider of the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting standards, while enabling us to increase our relevance with stakeholders around the world.”
Mr van der Enden has served on the GRI board since 2019 and was a member of the technical committee that led to the development of the GRI Tax Standard, the first global standard for country-by-country tax disclosure.
“I am hugely excited by the opportunities open to GRI and look forward to leading the organisation into the next stage of their growth,” said Mr van der Enden.
“Around the world, we are seeing increased demands for businesses to be accountable for their impacts – by all stakeholders, from regulators and shareholders all the way to consumers and future employees. That accountability cannot be achieved without the comprehensive sustainability disclosure that is achieved through the adoption of the GRI Standards.”
Jon Bragg
Jon Bragg is a journalist for Momentum Media's Investor Daily, nestegg and ifa. He enjoys writing about a wide variety of financial topics and issues and exploring the many implications they have on all aspects of life.
