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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Velislava Ivanova
Velislava Ivanova
EY
Americas Chief Sustainability Officer

Profile

Velislava Ivanova is an expert in sustainability with over twenty-five years of wide international experience in developing and implementing sustainability strategies and programs for large multinational corporations from a variety of sectors including energy, manufacturing, retail, consumer goods and pharmaceuticals. Ivanova has guided a wide range of client organizations on embedding sustainability across their value chains and products. Ivanova has a proven track record in working successfully with senior executives in large and complex organizations to set sustainability ambition and goals and improve business performance. Ivanova’s work has given her the opportunity to manage complex environmental programs for private, IFI, and governmental clients. As a leader, Ivanova has positively transformed the long-term value strategies of businesses based in the USA, Canada, Bulgaria, UK, Russia, Ukraine, Slovakia, Romania, and Belgium. She has successfully led professional practices and teams in several leading global consulting companies. Ivanova is committed to being an inclusive leader, fostering a collaborative environment to develop diverse talent, innovative ESG solutions, and supporting the transition to a low-carbon and circular economy.

Areas of expertise

Sustainability, Environmental programs.

Group Overview

In the midst of an industry undergoing fundamental change, EY offers insights to help you reshape your business for the future. The disruption sweeping the energy and resources industry brings more opportunities than challenges — for companies that get ahead of change. Decarbonization, digitization, cost pressures and geopolitical uncertainty are just some of the forces transforming the energy and resources industry. Mining and metals, oil and gas, and power and utilities companies face a common challenge: how to marry short-term commercial pressures with the need to reshape their businesses for the future. EY helps energy and resource companies tackle this challenge. EY’s teams help you reshape your business by focusing on the structure, services, technologies and capabilities needed to meet commercial objectives today and create long-term value tomorrow. Together, EY can unlock the opportunities of an uncertain future — and build a better working world. Sustainability and ESG Sustainability is everybody’s business. EY is committed to helping business create value for sustainability as well as helping sustainability create value for business – reframing how business approaches sustainability and putting it at the center of how value is created. We call this Value-Led Sustainability – a way of protecting and creating new sources of value – for business, people, society and the world as a whole. And that makes it everybody’s business. Explore our global insights below on some of the key sustainability and ESG challenges organizations face today and learn how your business can help build a better, more sustainable working world. Energy & Resources In the midst of an industry undergoing fundamental change, we offer insights to help you reshape your business for the future. The disruption sweeping the energy and resources industry brings more opportunities than challenges — for companies that get ahead of change. Decarbonization, digitization, cost pressures and geopolitical uncertainty are just some of the forces transforming the energy and resources industry. Mining and metals, oil and gas, and power and utilities companies face a common challenge: how to marry short-term commercial pressures with the need to reshape their businesses for the future. EY helps energy and resource companies tackle this challenge. Our teams help you reshape your business by focusing on the structure, services, technologies and capabilities needed to meet commercial objectives today and create long-term value tomorrow. Together, we can unlock the opportunities of an uncertain future — and build a better working world.

Firm Overview

At EY, their purpose is building a better working world. The insights and services EY provides help to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets. EY exists to build a better working world, helping create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.