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Barbara Spiegel leads the Sustainability practice for EY Switzerland across EY’s Service Lines Assurance, Consulting, Strategy & Transactions, Legal and Tax. She coordinates EY’s sustainability go-to-market approach and ensures that our clients have access to the full breadth of sustainability knowledge and expertise across EY.
Barbara brings 20+ years business transformation experience, specializing in sustainability strategy & ESG value-led transformation projects since 2013. Most notably, she was Head of Sustainability at a multinational insurance group integrating ESG thinking, not only into operations, but also into core products and services. In her last role before joining EY, she consulted dozens of multinational fast-moving consumer goods companies on their net zero strategies, utilizing the most innovative technologies such as geospatial analysis for environmental footprint assessments and climate risk exposure, upskilling senior executives and cross-departmental teams on sustainability topics and business resilience.
How Barbara is building a better working world
Barbara believes strongly in profitable business within planetary boundaries. She helps companies look at today’s social and environmental challenges as opportunities for growth, for more sustainable and circular products and services, new business models, and competitive advantage in relation to flagship sustainability projects. She understands the impact and relevance of ESG risks and opportunities on different company departments from strategy, finance, to R&D, procurement, product development, and sales. She likes to challenge the status quo – because business as usual is no longer an option.
Besides corporate advisory, Barbara has been leading a key role in various multi-stakeholder initiatives aiming at tackling environmental and social challenges through collaboration, such as carbon accounting alignment in the cocoa industry (World Cocoa Foundation) or insurance pledge alignment via the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI).