Amy Brown

Senior Sustainability Strategist & Writer

For over two decades, Amy has served as a sustainability and business communications strategist, writer, and editor for multinational companies in both Europe and North America that are among the most recognized leaders in sustainability. At IOP Amy leads sustainability reporting, materiality, and strategy projects. 

Amy’s focus is on helping companies make sense of a constantly evolving sustainability and business agenda, identify actions that deliver a strategic edge, communicate sustainability commitment, and strengthen stakeholder engagement. In addition to helping companies tell a compelling value creation story, Amy’s communications expertise has helped clients identify their most material issues, develop a value chain approach, manage risks and spot trends, and make the business case for sustainability. She crafts content that gives companies a platform to build trust, engage in dialogue with their stakeholders, and begin to transform markets.

Amy has many years of experience working with the leading reporting frameworks, including GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board), International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), the CDP and the Task Force for Climate Related Disclosures (TCFD). She assists companies in developing double materiality assessments in light of the new EU  Corporate Reporting Sustainability Directive (CSRD) as companies prepare to take their ESG reporting strategy, framework and practices to the next level. She is also engaged in journalism with leading sustainability publications including Reuters and Triple Pundit.

Amy has a degree in journalism and has lived all over the world. She currently lives in Venice, Florida, and is an avid traveler.