How to Be a Chief Sustainability Officer author Anna Krotova: ‘We can’t afford to be binary’
"What we really should be thinking is, how do we position anyone who comes into this role for success."
In the debate on whether Chief Sustainability Officers should come from a technical sustainability background or be seasoned corporate leaders, Anna Krotova has a clear answer: we need both.
Having herself worked in sustainability her whole life – first as a consultant, then as a technical lead at the Global Reporting Organisation (GRI) and now as a corporate sustainability director since 2018 – Krotova believes people like her have “for too long been very protective” of their roles, ie arguing that only people with a sustainability-related degree and background could become CSOs.
