Technical Committee - The ESG Exchange

Erin Casteel

Member of the Technical Committee

Convenor of the Sustainability Data Practice Group

Erin’s focus is optimising the governance and management of the organisation as a system, through creating and preserving value, improving outcomes and working effectively with a shared vision.

As a strategist and business architect, Erin has collaborated with organisations on optimisation to solve key business challenges, for different industry sectors including transportation, energy, telecommunications, managed services, financial services and government agencies. Erin also works with organisations on establishing, evolving and integrating the capabilities needed to be adaptive and resilient in our volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.

Erin enjoys providing leadership and direction and the challenges of people management, with a history of building strong, hardworking and loyal teams. In every role Erin has emphasised the importance of mutual respect and collaboration to deliver both high quality results and a positive, engaged work environment.

Erin is a Lead Architect of ITIL® 4 and an author of the ITIL 4 Foundation book, which now incorporates Lean and Agile concepts and provides guidance on how organisations can manage their resources, practices and ecosystem to increase their agility and resilience, to not only survive but thrive in the digital age.

Erin is the editor of ISO/IEC 27013, part of the ISO family of Standards for Information Security management, which provides guidance on the integration of a management system for information security and service management. Since 2006 Erin has contributed to the development of ISO/IEC 20000, the International Standard for service management. Erin has been project editor for multiple parts of this standard and for many years, as Convener, Erin has led the group of international experts from more than 35 countries developing the ISO/IEC 20000 series.

Erin’s with organisations and her work development of international best practices are mutually reinforcing and allows her to deliver competitive advantages and to be at the forefront of industry innovations.

Jenitha John

Member of the Technical Committee

Jenitha John is the past Chair of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Global Board of Directors (2020-21). She is an experienced executive with more than 28 years of corporate experience in diverse industries traversing the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. Being a Chartered accountant, a Chartered Director, a Certified Internal Auditor (with the coveted Quality in Internal Audit leadership certificate) and a Harvard Alumni bears testimony to her being fully versed on issues facing the corporate world and through her experiences, she developed much insight on corporate governance, strategic, financial and operational matters faced by organizations.

She is an experienced Chief Audit Executive and has held various financial and audit related roles at large companies in corporate South Africa. Before becoming Chairman of The IIA Global Board, her volunteer roles included serving as the Global Board’s Senior Vice Chair (2019- 20), as well as serving on the IPPF Relook Task Force, Committee of Research and Education Advisors, Financial Services Guidance Committee, and on the Global Board’s Executive Committee as 2018-19 Vice Chairman-Professional Certifications, and 2017-18 Vice Chairman-Professional Practices. She also led the global task force on the updated Three Lines Model (formerly Three Lines of Defense).

Recognized as “South Africa’s Internal Auditor of the Year” in 2014, Jenitha has addressed conferences around the globe on a wide array of topics, such as internal audit’s role in governance, combined assurance, women in leadership, the impact of AI and robotics on industries, emerging issues in the financial services industry, ESG and Sustainability Assurance. In addition, Jenitha actively participates in mentoring circles, panel discussions, and networking sessions throughout the world, and strongly believes in developing young minds. She has served on professional body governance committees, produced papers on various industry/governance topics. She has also delivered lectures at South African business schools on Board Leadership programs and trained aspirant CIA’s for the CIA exams.

Dr John Shideler

Member of the Technical Committee

Co-Convenor of the Decarbonisation Practice Group

John Shideler is an environmental expert focused on decarbonizing the world economy. He helps clients to manage and report greenhouse gas emissions, quantify the carbon footprint of products, and verify greenhouse gas statements. He applies these skills especially in the areas of environmental finance (“greening” financial sector products) and in promoting the transition to sustainable transport fuels. He helps clients “manage sustainably” through implementation of environmental and occupational health and safety management systems.

John is active in international standards development. He is Chair of Subcommittee 4 on Environmental Performance Evaluation in ISO Technical Committee 207 (Environmental Management). In this subcommittee he is convenor of a working group developing international standards for green bonds and green loans. He has served as a US expert to ISO TC207 Subcommittee 7 on Greenhouse Gas Management and has received five times an “Outstanding Achievement in Standards Development Award” for his work on ISO 14064, ISO 14065, ISO 14066, and ISO 14069. He is a member of the Climate Change Coordination Task Force, a group that reports directly to ISO’s Technical Management Board.

John has represented ISO at three “Conference of the Parties” meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He spoke on standards developments at the COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark (December 2015), COP24 in Katowice, Poland (December 2018) and at the COP25 in Madrid, Spain (December 2019). To hear his remarks from the COP24 where he spoke on the development of ISO 14030, a standard in four parts on green debt instruments (bonds and loans), click HERE.

John is accredited by the California Air Resources Board as a greenhouse gas lead verifier. He also serves as a Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels lead auditor. He is an associate member of the American Bar Association and the Risk Management Association.

John earned his PhD degree at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author with Jean Hetzel of Le grand livre de la stratégie bas carbone (La Plaine Saint-Denis, France: AFNOR, 2019), five other books, and several articles for journals and reviews.

Michael Gillenwater

Member of the Technical Committee

Dr. Gillenwater is a co-founder, Executive Director, and Dean of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, a non-profit organization with the unique mission to train and professionalize a global community of experts for measuring, verifying, and managing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Michael is a thought leader on GHG measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), carbon offsets, additionality, green power, international capacity building, and environmental accounting. He has dedicated his career to professional and international development, focusing on the infrastructure needed to produce highly credible environmental information that can serve as the basis of effective climate policies. Beyond guiding the Institute’s strategy and programming, Michael also directs its research program and curriculum development.

He is a four time lead author for the IPCC and contributor to its 2007 Nobel Peace Price. He has been engaged in the work of the UNFCCC process for 25 years, including the training of compliance experts for the Kyoto Protocol. He has been a core advisor and contributing author to the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol. At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Michael was lead author of the official U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory for its first 7 years. He also served on the U.S. negotiating team to the UNFCCC Conference of Parties.

Michael founded and serves as a co-Editor in Chief for the peer reviewed journal Carbon Management published by Tyler & Francis. He is also an active research scholar on GHG accounting and climate policy topics, having been widely published in peer-reviewed journals and quoted by the media. Dr. Gillenwater completed his PhD at the Science, Technology, & Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, where his research was on the economics of renewable energy and emission markets and design of environmental commodities. He has three master’s degrees: i) environmental engineering, ii) technology policy, both from MIT, and iii) evolutionary systems from the University of Sussex where he was a Fulbright scholar. His bachelors is in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University.

Victoria Hurth

Member of the Technical Committee

Victoria is a Fellow of the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and a Visiting Fellow of The University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. She has a Master’s in Environment and Development from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa and a PhD in Sustainable Business Strategy from Exeter University, UK.

Victoria was the Technical Author for the first national standard in Purpose-Driven Organisations (PAS 808:2022) and co-led the 5-year development of the first global ISO standard in Governance of Organizations (ISO 37000:2021) for which was awarded ISO Excellence and BSi Creativity in Standards awards. She also co-led the 1 year ISO ad-hoc group scoping standards on Indicators for Governance (TC309/AHG5). Victoria is a regular UNCTAD review panel member for ISAR Honors and was a member of the UNCTAD/UNEP Task Force developing a methodology for SDG indicator 12.6.1 and a member of WBCSD’s working group on Governance. She is the academic lead for Common Ground Research Network’s Climate Change theme and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Scientist’s Warning Foundation. She co-designed, and is the Head Tutor of CISL’s 8-week online course ‘Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative’.

Victoria has over 20 years of experience in marketing, management and sustainability, having previously worked for 3M and Accenture with companies including Marks and Spencer, Cancer Research, and J Sainsbury and developing theory as an Associate Professor of Sustainable Business and Marketing. She is currently employed as Non-Executive Director at the Soil Association Certification Ltd previously for family hardware retail chain FTB Lawson Ltd. Victoria is a Chartered Manager and Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published research papers and thought pieces in journals including Nature Climate Change, Energy Policy, The New Scientist and Sustainable Development and was co-editor with Iain Stewart and Stephen Sterling of a Frontier’s special issue on Re-purposing Universities for Sustainable Human Progress.

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Peadar Duffy

Global ESG Practice Lead at Archer Integrated Risk Management

Peter Milsom

Axel Kravatzky

Cathie Lewis

Sorana Baciu

Victoria Puxley

Erin Casteel

Ine-Lize Terblanche

David Krone

Rajarshi Ray

Adam Wasserman

Aga Manhoa

Dr Ahmed Shawky Mohammed

Alexandra Poe

Aline Eibl

Anette Ronnov

Anveshi Gutta

Aron Belinky

Avhadali Matambela

Aylin Alagoz

Belinda Carreira

Bryan Robinson

Dr Carol Adams

Professor of Accounting at DUBS; Chair, GRI's Global Sustainability Standards Board; Editor, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal

Cornelie Crous

Coro Strandberg

Dana Hanby

Daniel Cremin

Daniele Pernigotti

Danielle Duell

Darshini Watawala

Dave Collins

David Shandler

David Wray

Denis Mowbray

Duncan Watta

Elif Özkul Gökmen

Elizabeth Akiboye

Elke Schrader

Frederik Otto

Geoffrey Odundo

Glenn Frommer

Goze Dogu

Ian J. Saunders

Ihsan Zakri

Jenitha John

Jeremy Osborn

Jeroen Bolluijt

John Bottega

Dr John Shideler

Jonathan Ha

Jonathon Hanks

Karen McWilliams

Kevin O’Neill

Langton Mabhanga

Lebogang Senne

Lee Swan

Liezel Burger

Loise Wangui

Louisa Durkin

Lyndsey Zhang

Lynn Johannson

Marcus Burke

Marie-Josée Privyk

Mark Hodge

Matthew le Cordeur

Michael Gillenwater

Michael Parkinson

Milton Segal

Monica Merrifield

Mumbi Wachira

Nada Naufal

Nishantha Hewavithana

Noa Rataj-Mongelous

Osama El Meligy

Owen Skae

Patrice Lasserre

Professor of Accounting at DUBS;
Chair, GRI's Global Sustainability Standards Board;
Editor, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal