Two Tomorrows director receives Lead CSAP status

Two Tomorrows group director Dave Knight has joined an elite group of sustainability professionals worldwide in achieving Lead Certified Sustainability Assurance Practitioner (Lead CSAP) status.

Dave is one of a small number of professionals globally to hold this sought after qualification. CSAP is the internationally recognised professional qualification in the field of sustainability report assurance, developed jointly by AccountAbility and the International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA).

With the award of Lead Practitioner status, Dave has reached the highest grade available for practitioners working in the field of sustainability report assurance.

Dave is a highly regarded expert in strategy development, training, reporting and producer responsibility. He is also an experienced conference speaker and workshop facilitator. He was previously on the advisory board of WWF’s One Planet Programme, and a partner manager for Project Sigma, which produced the precursor for many of today’s leading sustainability approaches and standards.

Over the past nine years, Dave has led the assurance of sustainability reports produced by many top UK and international companies including RWE npower, Royal Mail and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Mark Line, executive chairman of Two Tomorrows, says: “Dave has been a pioneer of sustainability assurance over many years. He has helped improve the credibility of the sustainability discipline by contributing to the development process for the AA1000 assurance standards, and has shared his industry learning through development and training with some of the world’s leading organisations.

“In order to have been recognised with this status, Dave has had to demonstrate his in-depth experience and knowledge of sustainability assurance using the AA1000 assurance standards over a number of years.”

Two Tomorrows is currently the world’s number one assuror of sustainability reports using AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS), according to figures from Corporate Register.

Dave Knight says: “I am delighted to have received this grade from AccountAbility. At Two Tomorrows, we go to great lengths to offer meaningful opinion, helping clients derive value from our recommendations. This new qualification helps to create rigour in this developing market and I hope it will give companies extra confidence that we can help them improve the credibility of their reporting in a meaningful way.”

Kurt Ramin, director of global standards, AccountAbility, adds: “Congratulations to Dave. His achievement shows the importance of AccountAbility’s series of AA1000 standards and the increasing need to perform assurance on sustainability reports and non-financial data.”