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Maura Hodge
Maura Hodge is the ESG Audit Leader for KPMG in the U.S. and an audit partner in KPMG’s Boston Office.Full Bio
Maura Hodge is the ESG Audit Leader for KPMG in the U.S. and an audit partner in KPMG’s Boston Office.
She has more than a decade of experience providing ESG reporting, and assurance services coupled with nearly 20 years of experience providing audit and internal control opinions on financial information for companies ranging from venture-backed private companies to the Fortune 100. Because of this background, she sits at the nexus of ESG strategy and reporting and regularly speaks with the media and clients to educate and advise on practical next steps.
In addition, Maura is developing and overseeing initiatives to upskill KPMG professionals in ESG to support the embedding of ESG into all of KPMG’s services as well as supporting KPMG’s own impact strategy and reporting.
Maura has served as KPMG’s liaison to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). She contributes to KPMG’s views with respect to responses to the SEC, standard setting for the IFRS Foundation’s ISSB, FASB and the AICPA Sustainability Task Force and supports KPMG International member firms with ESG assurance of U.S. components. She is a member of KPMG’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Technical Topic Team, a 14-member global team that monitors regulatory changes on sustainability reporting, provides input to KPMG comment letters, develops guidance and thought leadership related to the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards issued by the ISSB and liaises across KPMG for consistent message on ESG reporting.
As a licensed CPA, Maura is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA). She was named a Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 in 2017, an MSCPA Woman to Watch – Emerging Leader in 2018 and to Accounting Today’s Top 100 in Accounting in 2022. She is an expert Panel member for Accounting for Sustainability (A4S). She holds a Master's degree in Accounting and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.Minimize
She has more than a decade of experience providing ESG reporting, and assurance services coupled with nearly 20 years of experience providing audit and internal control opinions on financial information for companies ranging from venture-backed private companies to the Fortune 100. Because of this background, she sits at the nexus of ESG strategy and reporting and regularly speaks with the media and clients to educate and advise on practical next steps.
In addition, Maura is developing and overseeing initiatives to upskill KPMG professionals in ESG to support the embedding of ESG into all of KPMG’s services as well as supporting KPMG’s own impact strategy and reporting.
Maura has served as KPMG’s liaison to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). She contributes to KPMG’s views with respect to responses to the SEC, standard setting for the IFRS Foundation’s ISSB, FASB and the AICPA Sustainability Task Force and supports KPMG International member firms with ESG assurance of U.S. components. She is a member of KPMG’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Technical Topic Team, a 14-member global team that monitors regulatory changes on sustainability reporting, provides input to KPMG comment letters, develops guidance and thought leadership related to the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards issued by the ISSB and liaises across KPMG for consistent message on ESG reporting.
As a licensed CPA, Maura is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA). She was named a Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40 in 2017, an MSCPA Woman to Watch – Emerging Leader in 2018 and to Accounting Today’s Top 100 in Accounting in 2022. She is an expert Panel member for Accounting for Sustainability (A4S). She holds a Master's degree in Accounting and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.Minimize