AccountAbility: Best ESG Strategy Development Partner Global 2025
AccountAbility is a global sustainability advisory, research, and standards firm that integrates thought leadership, frameworks, and board-level counsel to help organisations embed ESG principles and practices into corporate strategy, governance, performance, and impact for over 30 years.
Operating out of offices in London, New York, Riyadh, and Dubai as a Public Benefit Corporation, AccountAbility advances responsible business practices through its Advisory Services, Industry-based Research, and the AA1000 Series of Standards. Guided by a culture of decency, professionalism, and excellence, AccountAbility accentuates client service and delivers practical solutions across the broad range of existing and emergent sustainability challenges facing businesses.
Recognised by the World Economic Forum as an ESG Framework Developer and by Forbes and the Financial Times for its global consulting excellence, the firm combines rigour and pragmatism. Under Chief Executive Officer Mr Sunil (Sunny) A Misser, AccountAbility has reinforced its leadership bandwidth with an experienced Chief Operating Officer and other senior hires, enabling scalable delivery, strategic partnerships, and disciplined execution. The firm advises CEOs, Chairs, and Boards on the shift of sustainability “from sideline to bottom line”, aligning sustainability with the DNA of the business, and regularly convenes dialogues with global leaders on geopolitical business challenges, macro-economic trends and issues of corporate governance.
Recent client work includes a twelve-year programme supporting the International Monetary Fund on environmental data, reporting, and sustainable procurement, and the launch of the AccountAbility “S” Lab partnership with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership (City College of New York) to cultivate innovation and sustainability talent through accredited course-work, capstone projects, mentorship and professional fellowship experiences.
The firm is in the process of refreshing its AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard (v3), in addition to recent updates to the Assurance Standard (AA1000 AS – v3) and AccountAbility Principles (AA1000 AP), to reflect current and future engagement needs, challenges, regulations and metrics.
The Capital Finance International (CFI.co) Judging Panel congratulates AccountAbility on winning the 2025 Best ESG Strategy Development Partner Award (Global).
