Christina Tsiarta
Senior Advisor On Sustainability, ESG And Climate Change
Christina Tsiarta is a consultant specialising in sustainability, ESG and climate change advisory services, with 15 years of professional experience in this space. Christina started her professional career in London working for sustainability consultancies, before relocating back to Cyprus to work as the Operations Director and Sustainability/ESG lead for a local management consultancy. She now offers advisory services on sustainability, ESG and climate change as a freelancer. Christina is also a member of the ESG Advisory Committee of the Kreston Global accounting network, and the lead and spokesperson of the Client Sustainability and ESG Advisory Services subgroup of this Committee.
Over the course of her career, Christina has worked with local municipalities, national government agencies and numerous of the Directorates-General of the European Commission, as well as the private sector across countries and across industries, to include HORECA, food production, energy, telecommunications, waste, financial services, transportation, real estate and construction. The types of projects that Christina has managed and delivered have ranged from technical and operational support to policy reform, strategy development and implementation, due diligence and compliance audits, implementation of standards, stakeholder engagement, reporting, gap analysis, materiality assessments, resource management and more. Christina also writes articles and blogs on sustainability and ESG issues.
Christina is a certified vocational trainer by the Human Resources Development Authority (ΑναΔ) of Cyprus (ΣΕΠ004886), holds a PRINCE2TM certification as a project manager, and has been certified in implementing the revised 2021 GRI standards, the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), as well as a series of ISO standards (14001 on environmental management systems, 26000 on social responsibility, 20121 on sustainable events). She is also a Practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (PIEMA).