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Emile leads global media relations and social media for two EY service lines: Assurance and Tax. In this role, he helps these businesses deliver differentiated messages in a highly regulated and competitive market.
Emile began his career in the UK civil service, advising a government department on media relations and marketing communications. He later joined one of the UK’s largest retail banks where he held several roles spanning corporate, consumer and B2B issues management and campaigning.
Before joining EY, Emile was the global lead, external communications, for a major international law firm.
How Emile is building a better working world
Emile is involved in a supplementary school project in a deprived part of west London, where he teaches GCSE English to students from mainly ethnic minority backgrounds.
He also works with a local charity which helps refugees to settle in the UK and rebuild their lives. He supports families with critical skills including IT, languages and job seeking, as well as day-to-day life admin.
Emile's latest thinking
Investors shun long-term ESG rewards in quest for short-term gains
LONDON, 10 December 2024. A blinkered view of climate change and sustainability has taken hold across the world’s investor community and is fueling a focus on short-term performance at the expense of longer-term gains from environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments, according to the latest EY Institutional Investor Survey.
10 Dec 2024
Emile Abu-Shakra
Businesses’ slow crawl on climate action jeopardizing global environmental goals
LONDON, 12 NOVEMBER 2024. A worldwide failure of businesses to put action plans and financial commitments in place to tackle climate change risks has derailed progress on vital global environmental goals, according to the latest EY 2024 Global Climate Action Barometer (Barometer).
12 Nov 2024
Emile Abu-Shakra
EY announces appointment of Dilek Çilingir as EY Global Forensic & Integrity Services Leader
LONDON, 24 OCTOBER 2024. The EY organization has appointed Dilek Çilingir as EY Global Forensic & Integrity Services Leader following the retirement of previous Leader, Andrew Gordon in June this year.
24 Oct 2024
Emile Abu-Shakra
Finance chiefs turn to AI to combat crisis of confidence in corporate reporting
LONDON, 23 OCTOBER 2024. Fears about the integrity and reliability of crucial corporate reporting data, are weighing on the minds of finance leaders around the world, but hopes are rising that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may offer some much-needed answers, according to the 2024 EY Global Corporate Reporting Survey.
23 Oct 2024
Emile Abu-Shakra
LONDON, 25 SEPTEMBER 2024. Financial controllers in organizations around the world are braced for radical change in their roles over the next five years, opening big opportunities for those who can embrace data and technology.
25 Sep 2024
Emile Abu-Shakra
EY launches major new initiative to help plug widening global skills gap
LONDON, 29 November 2022: The EY organization has today announced the launch of a new initiative designed to help businesses around the world address the rapidly growing global skills gap, by continuously equipping their workforces with vital new skills.
29 Nov 2022
Emile Abu-Shakra
Challenging conditions put corporate integrity standards at risk in emerging markets
LONDON, 20 SEPTEMBER 2022. Corporate integrity standards in emerging markets are at risk from a series of new pressures on businesses, according to the 2022 EY Global Integrity Report - Emerging Markets Perspective: “Is your organization upholding its integrity standards?”
20 Sep 2022
Emile Abu-Shakra
EY announces US$1b investment in a next generation technology platform to facilitate trust
LONDON, 16 JUNE 2022. EY today announces an investment of more than US$1b in a next generation assurance technology platform – part of a sustained focus on providing high quality audits and responding rapidly to changing expectations from regulators, governments, standard setters, audit committees and boards.
16 Jun 2022
Emile Abu-Shakra