Speaker Bio
Gillian Hinde is an executive leader with more than two decades of
global strategic consulting and marketing experience in banking,
finance and technology – and a passion for addressing inequity and innovating towards a net zero future. Her commercial achievements include launching Africa’s first e-commerce bank.
After a series of strategic, for-profit roles in global companies, including Unilever, the Standard Bank Group, Woolworths Group Limited Australia and EY, for the last four years Gill has channeled her commercial acumen, influence, and vision to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by leading EY’s Global Corporate Responsibility function.
In this global role, Gill is the leader of the EY Ripples program - a global endeavor harnessing EY’s people, partners and clients, with the goal of positively impacting one billion lives by 2030 and operating as a responsible global business, which means robust ESG reporting and achieving a net zero agenda by 2025.
Under her tenure, EY Ripples has become a pathway for innovation across three focus areas: supporting the next generation workforce, working with impact entrepreneurs and accelerating environmental sustainability.
As she continues to evolve the program, her approach is to collaborate to drive impact at scale — working with EY clients and other like-minded organizations, so each ‘ripple’ started has the potential to grow and join with others to create waves of positive change.
As a result, since Gill launched the program, EY Ripples has attracted an ever-growing network of collaborators across the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, EY Ripples has scaled to 126 countries, succeeded in cumulatively impacting more than 85 million lives in its first three years with over 190 000 EY people actively engaged.
Gill is also a member of the EY Global Corporate Responsibility Council - a subset of EYs Global Executive team, where she works to operationalize the firm’s ambition to realize a more socially just, economically inclusive, and environmentally regenerative future for all.
Other Boards: Gill is a board member of the Smithsonian Board for Science and Education.