Thomas Ball

Director, Sustainable Futures

KPMG in Ireland

Thomas leads the Nature, Biodiversity and Land Use service line of KPMG Sustainable Futures.

A scientist by training with a 20+ year career spanning corporate sustainability strategy, communications, policy and advocacy. Prior to joining KPMG, he was Head of Business Advocacy at WWF (The World Wide Fund for Nature) where he led a technical team working with global financial institutions and real economy businesses to drive the transition to a net zero and nature positive economy. Alongside this he was a core technical member of the UK Government’s Transition Plan Taskforce.

At KPMG he leads a diverse range of projects for public and private sector clients in Ireland and globally, for example on Science Based Targets for Climate, Nature and Land Use, agri-food sector transformation, Circular Economy, nature-related risks and dependencies assessments, TNFD LEAP, and integrated corporate transition planning in response to EU CSRD and other market and regulatory drivers.

In addition to Thomas’ corporate sustainability experience, he previously ran an award-winning documentary-making business for over 10 years producing environmental and social productions for clients such as The Guardian and WaterAid.

  • MSc, Environmental Technology, Imperial College London

  • BSc Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin

  • MA Documentary Making, University of the Arts London

  • Exec Cert, Sustainable Finance for Policy Makers, Oxford University

  • Net Zero and Nature Positive Corporate Transition Planning

  • Nature and Biodiversity Impacts and Dependencies Assessments

  • Science Based Targets for Nature and Land

  • TNFD

  • EU CSRD