British American Tobacco - Independent assurance

Independent assurance

Ensuring confidence in our processes

An independent review of our sustainability reporting is an important element of helping stakeholders place trust in our processes and in what we report and supports our commitment to openness and transparency.

Building on our long history of open engagement with our stakeholders, this is the third year we invited our Independent Stakeholder Panel, formed of key opinion leaders, to offer comment on the materiality of our Sustainability Report and a collective opinion on BAT’s performance. In addition, the consultancy Corporate Citizenship also provide limited assurance of selected ESG data in our ESG Report.

The Stakeholder Panel members are::

Philippa Foster Back CBE, Director of the Institute of Business Ethics (Panel chair) – an education charity whose purpose is to promote high standards of business behaviour based on ethical values.
Scott Ballin, Health Policy Adviser – Scott has spent more than 40 years involved in issues related to tobacco and health and is a key opinion leader on tobacco harm reduction.
Prof John Boardman , Emeritus Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford – John has published over 150 papers primarily focused on soil management and land degradation.
Marion Durose, Partner at Safe Space Collaboration LLP – an independent consultancy and training firm focused on Modern Slavery and Human Rights using dialogue, facilitation and mediation to bring parties together to agree a fair action plan on issues relating to worker exploitation in supply chains.
Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen, Owner and Director at ORCA & Co. ApS – a strategy advisory firm committed to working with companies and capital owners to maximise business value and societal impact by placing environmental, social and governance at the heart of decision making.