Richard Howitt

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582 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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Frankly Speaking - A Podcast on Responsible Business · #117 How Businesses Can Combat Modern Slavery: Professor John Dumay · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

Thank you again to John and to all of you for listening.

Do join us next time and goodbye.

Frankly Speaking - A Podcast on Responsible Business · #116 Simon Rawson: Is Inequality a Risk to Business? Inside the TISFD Framework · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Welcome to Frankly Speaking, the podcast on responsible business by Frank Bold, the European Public Interest Law Firm.

I'm Richard Howitt and after many years leading debates on responsible business issues inside the European Parliament, I host our discussions of the very latest developments on corporate sustainability, sustainable finance, business and human rights.

Today, the Task Force on Inequality and Social Related Financial Disclosures, or TISFD, whose draft is currently open for public consultation.

This is an attempt to harness capital markets to drive equality and people-based issues through corporate disclosure, seeking to repeat the success of the TCFD on climate, now a decade ago, and the TNFD on nature, which we've previously covered on this podcast.

We'll ask whether inequality really is a risk to business and whether there really is the same appetite for reporting on social isn't.

Our guest to discuss this is the TISFD Executive Director, Simon Rawson.

Simon, a big welcome to Frankly Speaking.

Hi, Richard.

Thanks for having me.

Now, as I often ask my guests first before we get onto the subjects, where did you first get into sustainability in your life or in your career?

Where does it come from?

We don't be too diplomatic in this conversation.

Uh and I'll be doing my best to ensure that you're not now uh and you're joining people who've got the bug.

A lot of our listeners have got the bug.

And uh so uh uh it's great to have you you uh here today.

Now um obviously in a podcast we're not gonna present the the tr consultation version of the framework.

But just for our listeners who m may not have read it, just pick out some examples or key characteristics from from the version you've published.

One of the the

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