Meredith Jones
Executive Director, Financial Accounting Advisory Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Biography
Meredith joined Ernst & Young LLP’s ESG Assurance team from Aon, where she was a partner focused primarily on ESG and responsible investing. She was the leader of Aon’s Global ESG Think Tank and the US and Canadian Responsible Investment committees, and worked with Aon’s investment and corporate clients on ESG initiatives and integration, climate change initiatives, impact investing and finance, divestment and decarbonization strategies, and diverse investing initiatives. Her work at Aon spanned investment consulting, commercial risk, reinsurance, Aon’s M&A and Transaction Advisory service, health and human capital.
Meredith has more than 20 years of investment industry experience, beginning her career at Van Hedge Fund Advisors International, where she was Director of Research. Through the years, she worked in various research and consulting capacities at PerTrac Financial Solutions, Barclays Capital and RKCO before joining Aon in 2015.
Meredith’s research has been featured in the international financial media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Journal of Investing and more. She is the award-winning author of Women of The Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (And How You Can Too), was named one of Inc.’s 17 inspiring women to watch in 2017, was selected as a distinguished author by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018, and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in 2019.
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