Who we are

SD Analytica’s founder director is Derek Smith.

Derek is an expert in the field of corporate reporting and accounting.

He has extensive experience of sustainability reporting frameworks, standards, methods and assurance, gained from 13 years at Ernst & Young, followed by more than 20 years as the founder director of SD Analytica.

Derek worked as the Business Unit Leader of E&Y’s UK Environment and Sustainable Development Group (within its Risk Management services department). He helped to develop approaches to third-party assurance of HSE data and information, including site-based and corporate location auditing, principally in the oil and gas sector.

Having established SD Analytica in 2002, Derek has provided advice and written and edited dozens of corporate sustainability reports, in oil and gas, mining, telecommunications, banking and other sectors.

He has detailed understanding of independent auditing and assurance. This includes experience of the collection, quality assurance and disclosure of HSE performance data in internal and external corporate reports.

Derek is an experienced facilitator and convenor of working groups and has wide experience of information gathering, discussion and consensus building.

Derek has an MA degree in English Language and Literature from New College, Oxford and a Diploma in European Policy from the College of Europe in Bruges.