Heather Rankin

Heather has worked in ESG and sustainability strategy and policy development, reporting, communications and stakeholder engagement for 20 years. She combines her sustainability knowledge with strategic thinking and excellent research, analysis and writing skills.

Heather works across many sectors, with a recent focus on the food and beverage industry and agricultural supply chains. From 2021 to 2023, she led ESG reporting and disclosure at Nestlé, redesigning the company’s global reporting strategy, processes, metrics, data governance and management to reflect evolving voluntary and mandatory requirements. Before that, Heather worked as an independent sustainability consultant for companies, including Mars, Oatly and SABMiller. As a director of Context Group, she worked with clients in a wide range of sectors, including CEMEX, HSBC, Kazakhmys, Kimberly-Clark, Roche, Tesco and Xstrata.

Her recent consulting experience includes a materiality assessment for an engineering company in the offshore energy sector, and a benchmark of industry best practices in sustainable sourcing for a B2B food client.

An industrial engineer by training, Heather holds professional qualifications in health and safety, environmental management and compliance, and social and ethical auditing and reporting. She has consulted on and written multiple award-winning sustainability reports during her career for clients like BT and HP.