Hannah Gilkes

Practice Areas

ESG Intelligence

Human Rights and Impacts Assessments

Supply Chain Intelligence and Due Diligence

Future Proofing: Trend Mapping, Scenario Planning and Reputation Forecasting

Greenwashing Investigations

Issue Intelligence and Mitigation

Career

Hannah leads Risk Advisory’s global ESG intelligence practice. She assists clients across a range of industries access hard-to-find information that helps them to understand and mitigate ESG issues across their operations.

Based in London, Hannah is part of Risk Advisory’s wider business intelligence and investigations practice which helps businesses survive and thrive by equipping corporate decision makers and their advisors with the meticulously sourced, local intelligence they need to make the right commercial decisions.

Hannah has worked in intelligence for over a decade. Prior to this role, she headed Risk Advisory’s Africa practice, managing its investigations on the continent across the company’s integrity, strategic intelligence and ESG service lines. She has also worked at FTI Consulting, Livingstone & Company, Africa Confidential and The Africa Report.

Hannah is an Ethiopian national. She has lived and worked in Addis Ababa and travelled extensively across sub-Saharan Africa, spending extended periods of time in Ethiopia, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in English Literature in 2007.