JONATHAN MILLÄNG | SENIOR ADVISOR
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As a Senior Advisor, Jonathan has a primary focus on social dimensions of corporate reporting standards, frameworks and practice, including Shift’s engagements with the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), and the Sustainability Reporting Board of EFRAG (European Financial Reporting and Advisory Group) as well as on the EU’s wider sustainable finance agenda.
Jonathan has one decade of ESG strategy, reporting, and policy experience. Before joining Shift, he spent five years with the Stockholm-based specialist management consultancy firm Ethos. Here he was a member of the executive management team and served as Senior Advisor and Head of Sustainable Finance while leading a team of sustainability experts. While at Ethos, he worked with multiple Fortune 500 and FTSE 250 firms on projects focused on capacity building and strategic implications ahead of and during the rollout of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance (SFDR, EU Taxonomy, CSRD) and global reporting frameworks such as the IFRS Sustainability Standards (ISSB) and TCFD.
Prior to his tenure as Head of Sustainable Finance at Ethos, he co-founded a venture-backed climate-focused impact startup and filled numerous sustainability and advocacy roles within the public and private sector – on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign, the Swedish Campaign for Zero Emissions, NextGenerationEU, Sustainable Innovation, and as board member at PUSH Sweden and Wellstreet VC.
Other than that, he has worked in stints as a grape picker, groundworker, garbage collector, waiter, deckhand, tutor, translator, and stonemason’s assistant. Jonathan is bilingual in Swedish and English.
Jonathan has a B.A. in Political Economy from University of California, Berkeley. He has also undertaken graduate studies in International Affairs with a focus on International Finance and Economic Policy at Columbia SIPA in New York.
