I believe that the financial sector has a huge role to play in driving sustainable development, and we’ll see an even more growing awareness and competence in sustainable finance.

Dr. Rossella Zunino

EY Italy Financial Services Climate Change & Sustainability Services Leader

Sustainability pioneer. Believes in the importance of sustainability for the future. Ardent climate crusader. Stays proactively close to clients. Happy mother of 11-year-old boy.

Rossella currently leads the Climate Change and Sustainability Service (CCaSS) practice for the Financial Services Office (FSO), EY S.p.A, Italy. She is a senior manager who has been supporting EY Assurance CCaSS Mediterranean partners at the member firms to develop sustainability consulting and assurance.

Since 2016, Rossella has been designing the EY go-to market strategy for the new FSO Italy CCaSS practices in coordination with the FSO Italy Market Leader and the FSO Italy Assurance Leader.

Before joining the EY organization in 2014, she was a partner at a small sustainability consulting firm, which was later acquired by the EY organisation.

Rossella received her master’s degree in Business Economics from Genoa University. Her graduation thesis was on environmental, health and safety, and corporate responsibility management systems.

How Rossella is building a better working world

“Maintaining a harmonious workplace is essential to building a well-organized and functioning team. I put a lot of effort into this aspect of work. I invest considerable time and energy into attracting talented resources from top Italian universities. These new professionals are then taught to be part of our teams through continuous training and counselling. I build my teams up through regular meetings, wherein each person is motivated and told how they contribute to the bigger picture. I believe this is necessary for not only better outputs or even their own personal development, but also so that each person in the CCaSS team realizes the value of their contribution to developing a better tomorrow.”

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