Conor Kehoe is Chair of the (UN) PRI Board. PRI is the investment industry’s global sustainability association – with 5500 members who manage assets totaling $120tn. He also chairs the audit and risk committee of Cartrawler – a Dublin HQ ed ecommerce company in the travel industry and is an Adviser to Summa Equity – Europe’s leading impact investor.
He is a Special Advisor at McKinsey where he founded and co-leads McKinsey’s Board Intelligence Forum for European non-executives and chairs. Previously, he co-founded McKinsey’s Private Equity and Principal Investor Industry (PEPI) Practice and latterly McKinsey New Ventures. While at McKinsey he was a member of the founding team of Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLTGlobal.org).
Originally a software engineer, he also led McKinsey’s Tech and Telecom Practice in Europe. He advises a small number of software-based growth stage companies – as a board member or advisory board Chair. He recently chaired the Turing Institute’s AI Fellowship Award Committee. He is an adjunct lecturer at Tsinghua University and, recently, he revived his rusty software skills and completed Stanford’s Machine Learning Course.
Conor previously chaired the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) – a coalition of 70 leading Sustainability organisations – during its merger with SASB and the subsequent merger of the two into the IFRS to form the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) (Sept 2022). He was a member of the G7 Impact Accounting Taskforce and is involved in two organisations advancing the case for impact accounting.