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This feedback session is for asset owners and asset managers only.
The Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB) wants your feedback! Climate-related disclosures prepared in accordance with AASB S2 are set to become a key source of information for investors, with certain Australian entities publishing their first reports in stages throughout 2026. Asset owners and manager representatives are invited to join an investor-focused discussion facilitated by AASB covering:
- Background behind international and domestic standards
- Insights gained so far
- Roundtable-style discussion: your opportunity to share insights and challenges as users of climate-related information
Managing Director of the Australian Accounting Standards Board
Justin is the Managing Director of the Australian Accounting Standards Board as well as the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. The Australian Accounting Standards Board approved and released the first Australian Sustainability reporting Standards AASB S1 (voluntary) and AASB S2 (mandatory), with mandatory reporting commencing for certain entities from 1 January 2025.
Justin has more than 25 years experience and has worked in hands-on-field-roles as well as in corporate environments. Outside of his current role Justin has been CEO for NFP entities in Australia and the UK, and has been in Client Facing Professional Services roles as a Consulting Director. In a previous career, Justin was an environmental consultant working in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems assessing the impact on the environment from operations ranging from water storage to power generation.
Director of Strategy and Co-Lead Sustainability at Australian Accounting Standards Board
As Director of Strategy, Charis leads the development and implementation of key strategic initiatives for the AASB. This includes a strong focus on building and managing key domestic and international relationships. In her role as Co-Lead of the AASB’s Sustainability Reporting team, Charis oversees engagement with the international standard setting community and provides strategic input to the AASB’s sustainability standard setting projects.
Charis has a strong technical background as both standard setter and advisor. Before joining the AASB, she was the New Zealand External Reporting Board's Technical Director of Accounting Standards. Prior to this, Charis spent a number of years in a Big 4 financial accounting advisory role guiding CFO’s in Australia, Canada and New Zealand through complex financial accounting and reporting issues.
Board Member of International Sustainability Standards Board
Board Member of the International Sustainability Standards Board.
Charles T. Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting, University of Texas at Austin.
Jeffrey Hales has been serving as an inaugural member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) since July 2022. Prior to joining the ISSB, he served as an inaugural member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), which he chaired from 2018 to 2022. In his role as Chair, he oversaw the agenda setting and due process associated with the SASB standards development and maintenance. Before serving on the SASB Standards Board, he chaired the Standards Council for the SASB, which was formed in 2012.
Jeffrey Hales is also on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches corporate sustainability. His research interests center on standard setting and regulation and has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Financial Economics, among other journals.
During 2009-10, he was a Research Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Norwalk, CT. In addition, he served as a member of the FASB’s Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council from 2016-2019. In the United Kingdom, he served on the Financial Reporting Council’s Future of Corporate Reporting Advisory Group from 2018-2020 and as a member of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board from 2018-2022.
