Biography

Richard is a Partner in KPMG in the UK and was appointed Head of ESG in 2023.  He leads KPMG’s ESG practice across the UK firm helping clients develop and implement their ESG and sustainability strategies, and respond to market, regulatory and reporting developments; together with oversight of KPMG’s ESG Tax, Legal and Assurance practices. Richard has a particular interest in helping companies understand the commercial impact of sustainability and how they consider and respond to the issues of value creation and value protection and harness evolving regulation to develop their businesses.

Richard is Chair of the Financial Services Faculty at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and member of ICAEW Council where he contributes on both Financial Services and Sustainability matters.

Richard has over 25 years’ experience supporting clients across assurance and consulting. Previously, he was KPMG in the UK’s lead on UK Internal Controls and led our practice working with clients to respond to UK Corporate Governance Reform from 2021. He led the Financial Regulatory Reporting practice within Financial Services Consulting with extensive experience of acting as a Skilled Person for the UK Regulatory Authorities delivering S166 reviews from 2019, and before that led KPMG’s CASS advisory practice and co-led the CASS Audit practice including responsibilities as the CASS audit partner or quality control partner for some of KPMG’s largest CASS audits.

Richard served as a specialist advisor to the Treasury Select Committee of the House Commons between 2011 and 2015.