Amelia Ransome, Principal Consultant - Climate Transition Plans, South Pole

Amelia Ransome is a Principal Consultant at South Pole, where she leads the firm’s Climate Transition Plan offering. She works closely with corporate clients to develop and implement net zero strategies, helping them to define and progress their decarbonisation goals while building long-term climate resilience. Amelia provides strategic guidance on emission reduction pathways, climate resilience strategies, and transition planning, helping businesses integrate sustainability into their core operations and long-term growth strategies.

Before joining South Pole, Amelia was part of PwC’s Sustainability & Climate Change practice, where she gained experience in sustainability reporting standards and frameworks. Her work included mandatory compliance reporting, international assurance and audit standards, and voluntary initiatives such as CDP and SBTi. Amelia holds a degree in Economics & Spanish from the University of Leeds.

Patrick de Cambourg, Chair of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board

Patrick de Cambourg is the Chair of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board since November 2022.

Between 2015 and November 2022, he was President of the Autorité des normes comptables (ANC), the French accounting standard-setting Public Authority. As such, he was also a member of the Boards of Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), CNOCP and a member of the Haut Conseil de Stabilité Financière.

Patrick was a member of the EFRAG Financial Reporting Board and chaired the EFRAG Project Task Force on preparatory work for the elaboration of possible EU non-financial reporting standards from September 2020 until April 2022.

Patrick, a graduate from Sciences Po Paris, holds degrees in public and business law and has a Bachelor of Arts. As chartered accountant and auditor, he spent his entire career within the Mazars Group, successively as junior, manager, partner and senior partner (1983-2014). Since late 2014, he is Honorary President of the Mazars Group.

Kate Levick, Founding Director, The International Transition Plan Network (ITPN); Associate Director, Finance & Resilience, E3G

Kate Levick has led E3G’s work on finance and resilience for more than 6 years. E3G is an international climate politics think tank focused on the politics of climate change. Before joining E3G Kate was the Global Director for Policy Engagement at CDP for a decade, having previously worked on UK climate policy within the UK government and within the energy sector at BP Plc.

While at E3G Kate served as the Co-Head of the Secretariat to the UK’s Transition Plan Taskforce, setting out best practice guidance for private sector transition plans that is now linked to international standards. She is a member of the Advisory Panel to the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero, having previously participated in the Expert Group of the UK’s Transition Finance Market Review, the UK’s Green Technical Advisory Group and the UNFCCC’s Climate Champions’ Expert Peer Review Group and Financial Sector Expert Group.