Sumaya Jaffer leads Sustainability Advisory at SNG Grant Thornton, helping organisations embed environmental, social and governance priorities into their core strategies. Her work spanscarbon footprint assessments, ESG roadmaps, and mentoring SMEs through enterprise and supplier development programmes. She also supports community women’s forums to strengthen governance and leadership.
Her career began in internal auditing, but her passion for creating meaningful societal impact led her into the dynamic field of sustainability. She now blends her commercial and technical expertise with a purposedriven approach, guiding clients through complex ESG challenges with practical, results-focused solutions.
A pioneering offering under her leadership is the ESG Intelligence Hub — a digitally intuitive, market-ready platform that combines SNG Grant Thornton’s global sustainability advisory expertise with GoVEVA, a proven ESG management tool. It centralises data, aligns with global reporting standards, and turns ESG requirements into actionable business strategies.
