Katie Yewdall

Associate Director, Southeast Asia, Sustainability Consulting, ELEVATE

Katie looks after ELEVATE’s Sustainability Consulting activities across South East Asia. Her sustainability experience includes waste management and circular economy, impact investing and responsible finance, social impact measurement and sustainability and CSR strategies. Katie has deep experience in sustainability strategy development, reporting and assurance and has worked with clients of all sizes from numerous industries, including real estate, food and beverage, agriculture, manufacturing and financial services. Katie engages with clients at operational, management and board level and has delivered advisory support to clients via one-on-one engagements as well as group trainings.

Katie joined ELEVATE from KPMG Sustainability Services in Singapore, where she delivered various sustainability strategy and reporting engagements that included materiality assessments, stakeholder engagement, data collection and analysis, performance assessment and target setting. Prior to that, Katie has extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector, where she worked with local communities on developing and reaching marine conservation goals.

Katie holds an MSc (Environmental Modelling, Monitoring and Management) from Kings College London, UK and a BSc (Zoology) from Newcastle University, UK

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