William Hughes is the Sustainability Services lead in the UK, having joined Mazars in South Africa in 2017, where he introduced and assisted with the setup of the Sustainability Advisory service line. He is an IEMA certified carbon footprint analyst. William is an accredited Optimize facilitator and has in-depth experience in conducting strategic sessions at Board level. He has a thorough understanding and experience of business diagnostic engagements, business process reengineering and practical change management turnaround methods, producing sustainability reports for SME owner managed and mid-tier businesses based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and calculating carbon footprints for SME’s, owner managed and mid-tier businesses based on the Greenhouse Gas Accounting Standards.
Prior to Mazars, William ran his own commercial farm in Zimbabwe, before the farm was expropriated and then founded and set up Impahla Clothing, the first carbon neutral textile manufacturing company in Africa.