In this conversations episode, Matthew Gwyther and Giles Gibbons discuss where sustainability is now, what non-financial audit is likely to mean for corporates in the next few years, what Giles thinks about the ever-increasing squadrons of ESG consultants selling their wares, why Good Business has remained relatively small and what Giles makes of the Bud Lite Trans blow up.

This podcast in the Ahead of the Curves series, supported by Stifel Europe, has a focus on the subject of Experts and Expertise.

In case you missed it, we interviewed Julia Pyke, Joint Managing Director of Sizewell C, as part of our Jericho Conversations series.

We interviewed Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, of the Financial Times about Business’ unique relationship to Democracy as part of our Jericho Conversations series.

We interviewed Professor Helen Thompson, author of Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, as part of our Jericho Conversations series. We spoke about Brexit and Boris, the democratic process, the energy crisis and the return of onshoring.

Here’s the summary of last week’s Jericho Conversation on Putin: What is to be done now?. Bill was the investment adviser to the largest foreign investment fund in Russia until 2005 when he was denied entry to the country and declared a “threat to national security” as a result of his battle against corruption.