Susanna Arus

EU Public Affairs Manager

Susanna leads, designs, and implements the global communication strategy for Frank Bold’s Purpose of the Corporation Project. She has thus coordinated multiple workshops and events in Brussels and throughout Europe. Above all, she organized the project’s Creating Sustainable Companies Summit, held on September 28, 2016, which brought together over 100 participants and 30 speakers for 12 summit sessions.

Susanna also helps to create and distribute the project’s reports, position papers, and policy responses. She is in charge of the graphic design of the Project’s publications and audio-visual work, and manages its media relations.

Susanna is a graduate of the journalism program at the University of Barcelona. Before her engagement at Frank Bold, she worked in the public and private sectors and for non-profits. Her work today harnesses the wealth of skills she has gained in media, events, communications, graphic design, video and photo production.

My articles

Upholding EU’s Sustainability Leadership: The Imperative for Ambitious Reporting Standards

By the end of July, the European Commission is expected to adopt its first set of sustainability reporting standards (ESRS). The standards will impact 50,000 European companies and thousands international corporate groups. As part of the EU Corporate Sustainability Directive (CSRD) ecosystem, they will require large companies to report information on their sustainability impacts on people and planet as well as their sustainability-related risks and opportunities.

EU Commission’s advisory group publishes the first set of sustainability reporting standards. NGOs warn against reduction in ambition.

Sustainability reporting experts and NGOs welcome the adoption of the EU sustainability reporting standards (ESRS) by EFRAG submitted this week to the European Commission. Whilst the ambition of the ESRS remains limited in several areas, they represent a major improvement for companies as well as for users of sustainability information and address the biggest problems in quality and reliability of corporate reporting. 

Civil society calls for impact data, Paris-aligned targets and transition plans and a holistic approach to sustainability in global reporting standards

Following a public consultation closed this summer, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) is discussing in September the results of the input received on their draft proposals for climate and general sustainability standards.