Jessica Fries

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Is The World Ready For Your Innovation?
Our current retail system is set up to sell new products, which are used and then disposed of – very much a linear (and inefficient) process. The Closed Loop system implies that once products are used they can be reconditioned and brought back into the sales loop
Europe`s future depends on cities resilient to climate change
Around three quarters of Europeans live in cities. Most of Europe's wealth is generated in cities, and urban areas are particularly at risk due to climate change.
Microsoft Taxes Itself - Will it be enough to drive change?
This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates. Microsoft is charging every division and data center for the carbon emissions they generate. Will it be enough to drive change?
Life Cycle Approaches Key to Canada's Competitivenes
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy today released a new report that identifies the need for Life Cycle Approaches in environmental and economic decision-making by companies and government.
Clean mining association launched
A new industry association has been launched aimed at supporting and advocating technological advancements to make the mining industry cleaner and more environmentally responsible.

Jessica Fries

Executive Chairman, The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project & Board Director, The International Integrated Reporting Council

Jessica is Executive Chairman of The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), established by The Prince of Wales to "help ensure that we are not battling to meet 21st Century problems with what are, at best, 20th Century decision-making and reporting systems". Over the past two years, she has been Executive Director of both A4S and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), responsible for establishing and running the IIRC. She is now on the IIRC's Board and Deputy Chairman of its Working Committee. She has been on secondment to A4S and the IIRC from PricewaterhouseCoopers where she has worked with a wide range of companies, governments, investors and not-for-profit organizations to help them integrate sustainability into core business processes and activities. Jessica will shortly be returning to PwC to lead global activities on the future of corporate reporting and accounting for sustainability.

Jessica is co-editor of a book comprising case studies on 'integrated reporting' and 'integrated thinking' by leading academics published in June 2010, "Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights". She is a member of the UK Treasury's Sustainability Reporting Steering Committee, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy's Sustainability Committee and a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Non-Financial Disclosure.

Jessica is a chartered accountant, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.