View all Our second session of 2024 featured a conversation with Robert Donau, Global Head of Corporate Engagement and Sara Cardona, CSA Corporate Engagement, U.S. & Canada of S&P Global. Discussion covered S&P’s Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) and how recent developments in the ESG landscape have affected the assessment and its methodology.
Robert Dornau, Global Head of Corporate Engagement, S&P Global
Speaker biographies
Robert Dornau started his professional career in sustainability in 1999, with an emphasis on business solutions to address climate change. He worked on the topic from all angles including the market policy department at Deutsche Boerse, deputy to the CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), Consultant to the World Bank, Conference Director Carbon Expo, and Vice President Climate Change Services at technical verification for SGS. In 2014 Robert joined RobecoSAM working with hundreds of companies to benchmark their sustainability performance using the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). Since the acquisition of the CSA by S&P Global in 2020, Robert is heading the Global Corporate Engagement team.
Sara Cardona, CSA Corporate Engagement, U.S. & Canada, S&P Global
Sara works for S&P Global within its Sustainable1 organization as the Corporate Engagement lead for the US & Canada. In this role, she is responsible for increasing understanding and involvement in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) throughout the Americas.
She brings more than 10 years’ experience serving as an ESG practitioner for organizations including Cardinal Health and Hasbro, where she held various ESG-focused roles helping these organizations create and implement social compliance programs to advance their objectives. She has also worked as an advisor creating sustainability training for corporate executives, including developing and implementing GRI trainings as a certified GRI sustainability reporting trainer at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.
Sara has a bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Ethics & Social Responsibility from Bentley University, as well as a master’s degree in Corporate Social Responsibility from the University of Nottingham and an MBA from Suffolk University.
