Helle Bank Jorgensen is an internationally recognized expert on sustainable business practices, with a 30-year record of turning environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities. She works with many global Fortune 500 board members and executives, as well as smaller companies and investors. After 19 years as a partner at PwC in Europe and the US, Helle founded Competent Boards in 2018 with the support of a handful of global influential business leaders. Her vision was that board members, investors, and those advising them need to be informed about ESG, climate and other material issues that shape business of today. Today directors and senior executives in over 55 countries hold the Global Competent Boards Designation. In addition to Competent Boards, Helle has a few other brainchildren, including the world’s first green account, the first integrated report, the first holistic supply chain program and many innovative business solutions, and the future boardroom of choice. She is a business lawyer and accountant by training. She is a preeminent voice on ESG and serves at Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence’s Sustainability & ESG Insights Council; World Economic Forum (WEF) Expert Network for Corporate Governance, Leadership, and Emerging Multinationals; and Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) established by HM King Charles III, among other roles. Originally from Denmark, she has lived in the US and now lives in Canada, where she was recognized in 2023 as a Global Changemaker by The Globe and Mail and one of the Top 50 Influencers to Follow by Onalytica. In 2022 she was named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women. She was also selected as one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy in the US and Canada and received the SustainabilityX^® Magazine’s Global 50 Women in Sustainability Award. Her Amazon bestseller, Stewards of the Future: A Guide for Competent Boards, was published in 2022. https://twitter.com/HelleBankJorgen https://www.linkedin.com/in/hellebank/ https://competentboards.com/