A little
about me

Quentin Fornezzo and I coauthored the 2026 technical whitepaper Beyond Disclosure: Building Trust in Supplier GHG Data. It explains EcoVadis Carbon Data Reliability Levels and helps buyers assess the evidence behind supplier emissions information.

My public work on the Carbon Data Network connects supplier information with the systems businesses use for carbon accounting and decisions. The purpose of the technology, including AI, is to help companies understand their suppliers, direct their effort and assess progress.

EcoVadis’s 2025 appointment announcement describes a Supply Chain programme reaching more than 340 major buyers and 20,000 suppliers. That scale reflects years of work by colleagues, buyers and suppliers.

The 2018 CDP Supply Chain report, Closing the Gap, credited McKinsey’s analysis of supplier climate, water and forest disclosures across eight countries. I signed the acknowledgements as Global Director, Corporations & Supply Chains.

The wider remit included accredited solutions providers and efforts to make reporting more consistent. I also worked with the GHG Protocol Scope 3 group to encourage adoption of the standard.

Sustainable finance became a substantial part of my work. I advanced CDP’s early low-carbon lending proposition and helped build its collaboration with Walmart and HSBC. Our team’s later work with Vodafone and Citi linked environmental performance to preferential supplier financing.

My institutional contributions included the NZDPU Technical Advisory Board, documented in 2023, and Scope 3 Impact Delta’s Advisory Council. COP discussions, a World Bank roundtable and UN-agency forums brought that corporate perspective into debates about finance, standards and policy.

At the OECD’s 2023 Global Forum on Agriculture, I argued that procurement should carry climate expectations through supply chains. Companies need data they can act on; smaller suppliers need useful feedback. I also called for harmonised standards to reduce duplication.

With colleagues, I developed CDP’s Supplier Engagement Rating. Announced in 2016, with its first leaderboard in 2017, it recognised how well buyers engaged their suppliers on climate action.

We also worked with McKinsey on supplier action tools and research. The 2016 and 2017 reports document the collaboration, and my programme acknowledgements credit McKinsey’s contributors.

Science-based targets were part of that conversation. In 2017, BT’s Gabrielle Ginér and I discussed how regular CDP disclosure supported the company’s supply-chain target.

In 2013, I launched Action Exchange to help participating suppliers identify opportunities to reduce emissions. It gave disclosure a next step.

Business relationships became central to my environmental work, too. What one company buys, asks for and rewards can influence what another company does.