The Secretariat’s role is to ensure the planning, coordination and execution of initiatives, activities and interactions undertaken in support of the IIRC’s mission and role.
Secretariat staff are currently based in the UK (in facilities provided by ACCA), USA, Ukraine and Japan. Most are on secondment from partner organizations.
Paul Druckman
Chief Executive Officer
Paul is Chief Executive Officer of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). Paul is well known and respected in business and in the accounting profession worldwide. Following an entrepreneurial career in the software industry, Paul operated as a non‐executive chairman and director for companies in a variety of sectors until taking over this post. Formerly a Director of the UK Financial Reporting Council; member of the City Takeover Panel; and President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). His high profile work on sustainability matters has included chairing The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Executive Board and the FEE Sustainability Group.
Lisa French
Head of External Relations (Americas), based in New York
Seconded by the Global Reporting Initiative where she serves as Technical Director, Lisa has previously served as Principal, Guidance and Support at the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Lisa has gained industry experience at 3M, Metso Minerals and Ford Motor Company and has consulted to the International Finance Corporation.
Lisa has an MBA in Business and Sustainability and Finance from the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto. She holds an Engineering Chemistry degree with an Environmental specialization from Queen’s University, Kingston. Lisa is a licensed professional engineer.
Kate Jefferies
Relationships Manager
Kate is on secondment from Grant Thornton UK LLP. She was an audit manager in the government audit practice where her client portfolio included Plymouth City Council and Bristol Primary Care Trust. Kate’s client responsibilities covered financial statements audit, including the recent transition to IFRS, and value for money assessments which conclude whether an organization is financially resilient and prioritises its resources to achieve value for money. Kate has an MEng in Civil Engineering with Management from the University of Birmingham and is a chartered accountant.
Mark Brand
Relationships Manager
Mark is on secondment from Deloitte Accountants B.V. Prior to joining the IIRC, Mark was working as an audit manager in Deloitte’s Dutch practice with a focus on organizations in the financial services industry and consumer business. His extensive background includes work in IFRS reporting, sustainability reporting, assurance, and facilitating courses and workshops.
Mark has an MSc in Accountancy (major Accounting & Auditing) from Nyenrode University and is a chartered accountant in the Netherlands.
Henning Drager
Relationships Manager
Henning is on part-time secondment from BDO Ukraine where he is providing sustainability solutions for business with focus on the agriculture, energy, mining and food sectors. Henning has gained diverse sustainability experience working for Goldman Sachs, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Friends of the Earth International and ACCA Global. He is an adviser to the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and сhairs the Ukrainian Sustainability Forum. Henning has an MSc in Environmental Economics, MBA in Natural Resources and MSc in Human Ecology.
Superna Khosla
Relationships Director
Superna is on secondment from PricewaterhouseCoopers where she has specialised in Sustainability assurance services working with listed companies particularly in the Energy sector. Her key clients have included Rio Tinto and Royal Dutch Shell. While being based in London for most of her career, Superna has been seconded as a financial auditor to PricewaterhouseCoopers in Thailand and in Zimbabwe and worked as a Governance Advisor in Tanzania. Superna is a member of the UK board of Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), was a Trustee of the International Board of VSO for seven years and Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee. She was educated at St Hilda’s college, Oxford, where she read Classics and became a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales in 1998.
Jonathan Labrey
Communications Director
Jonathan Labrey is responsible for public affairs, policy, media relations, brand and marketing. Jonathan has a background in government relations, having headed up the public affairs team at the ICAEW from 2004-10 and at the RIBA from 2000-2004. From 2010-2012 Jonathan was head of communications for the Financial Reporting Council, the accounting, audit and corporate governance regulator in the UK. He started his career as a political advisor, having read Law at King’s College London.
Charlotte Masiello-Riome
Communications Strategy Advisor
Charlotte has developed high-level multi-lingual communication strategies, partnerships and outreach activities, especially related to sustainability issues, in both the public and private sector. She has worked with The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) since 2010. Prior to joining IIRC and A4S, Charlotte served as Communications Officer for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications (Orbicom) and has served as jury member for the Sustainability Innovation Globe Award. Charlotte holds a BA in International Studies and Journalism from American University in Washington, DC USA and has an MA in Mass Communications (Merit) from Leicester University.
charlotte.masiello-riome@theiirc.org
Mariko Mishiro
Technical Manager
Mariko is on partial secondment from WICI, the World Intellectual Capital Initiative. She previously worked at Ernst & Young ShinNihon in Japan and has conducted research in various areas including intangibles, Research & Development tax policy and non-financial information disclosures. She is involved in projects including XBRL and development of industry-specific and company-specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Mariko is a Certified Public Accountant (California) and holds a BBA in Accounting from University of Texas at San Antonio (US) and an MBA from Waseda University (Japan).
Michael Nugent
Technical Director
Michael is on secondment from the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). Major projects he has worked on with IFAC include the International Framework for Assurance Engagements and related assurance standard for non-financial engagements (ISAE 3000), and a standard for assurance engagements on GHG disclosures. Michael is a member the technical committees of the Global Reporting Initiative and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board. He is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a member of CPA Australia.
michael.nugent@theiirc.org
skype: michael.nugent-iirc
Lois Guthrie
Technical DirectorLois Guthrie is Executive Director of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and Technical Director to the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) on secondment from Zurich Financial Services. She is responsible for CDSB’s work to develop a framework for climate reporting in mainstream annual reports and for the development of technical aspects of IIRC’s work. She joined the Carbon Disclosure Project in 2004 after a career in international taxation and social security at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Zurich Financial Services. She studied environmental policy at the Open University and holds an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice.lois.guthrie@theiirc.org
Beth A. Schneider
Technical Director
Beth is on a partial secondment from Deloitte & Touche LLP in the USA, where she is an Audit Director involved in emerging assurance areas. She is working at the IIRC Secretariat on the technical development of the International Integrated Reporting Framework. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ (AICPA) Assurance Services Executive Committee (ASEC), the ASEC XBRL Assurance Task Force, the ASEC Risk Assurance and Advisory Task Force, and chairs the AICPA Sustainability Task Force.
Andrew Smith
Chief Operating Officer
Andrew is on secondment from PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is a former leader of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ national Sustainable Business Solutions practice in South Africa. He was a member of the sub-committee that developed the section on integrated sustainability reporting for inclusion in the King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa 2002. Andrew was previously head of the corporate secretariat of an international financial services institution based in Luxembourg. More recently, he was a programme director with an international non-governmental organization committed to promoting integrity-based reform in emerging markets. Andrew has an LLB (Hons) from King’s College, London and a Masters in Private Law from the University of Paris I.
andrew.smith@theiirc.org
skype: andrew.smith-iirc
Matty Yates
Governance Coordinator
Matty works with The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) where she is Head of the International Network. During her career, in South Africa and in the UK, Matty has undertaken a variety of projects and roles, with a common theme of promoting and embedding organizational change. Her experience includes nurturing networks that champion change and helping people to develop their skills through training and coaching. Matty is a chartered accountant, and has a B.Com (Honours) in Financial Accounting from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.