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Mehrdad NazariMehrdad Nazari (LEAD Europe, Cohort 7) recently co-delivered a 2-day course on sustainability reporting in New York City.

This course provided hands-on training on the framework and application of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which is the most widely such reporting framework in the world. The course was hosted in the board room of CA Technologies. Guest presenters included representatives from Citigroup, STR Responsible Sourcing and CA Technologies. Mehrdad developed LEAD Canada’s GRI training program (now outsourced to Sustainalytics), co-delivered over a dozen GRI courses across Canada and the US, and assisted several companies and an NGO with their inaugural sustainability reporting efforts.