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Liv A. Watson is a Senior Fellow at the Bellona Foundation and the Data Foundation. She co-founded the SME Data Unlock project, as well as the open data standards XBRL and the XBRL International Consortium. Her extensive work has been crucial in the advancement of global digital business reporting standards. With over 30 years of experience in promoting digital transformation of financial and sustainability reporting, Liv is a key figure in driving the development of standards for a more transparent and sustainable future. She actively collaborates with prominent market regulators, accounting bodies, and institutions, advocating for the implementation of digital reporting to improve corporate governance and social responsibility reporting. Her involvement with XBRL includes serving on the IFRS XBRL Advisory Committee and the XBRL International Steering Committee. A widely published author in international journals like the Harvard Business Review, Liv also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance. Her contributions include several significant publications such as XBRL for Dummies, The Governance, Risk and Compliance Handbook, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, and Effective Auditing for Corporations.
Liv Watson is a Senior Fellow at the Bellona Environmental Foundation, where she co-leads the SME Data Unlock initiative, a key project within the wider Data Unlock program focused on unlocking diverse sustainability datasets and building a digital-first global data infrastructure. She specializes in modernizing environmental reporting for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), moving from manual and fragmented processes to automated, machine-readable systems that improve efficiency, transparency, and data usability at scale. Her work focuses on transforming the way small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) report environmental impact, moving from manual, cumbersome processes to automated, machine-readable systems.
Liv A. Watson is a Senior Fellow at the Data Foundation, contributing to both Special Projects and the Climate Data Collective. She co-founded the Global Digital Single Market Data Alliance (DSMDA) project, as well as the open data standards XBRL and the XBRL International Consortium. Her extensive work has been crucial in the advancement of global digital business reporting standards. With over 25 years of experience in promoting digital transformation of financial and sustainability reporting, Liv is a key figure in driving the development of standards for a more transparent and sustainable future. She actively collaborates with prominent market regulators, accounting bodies, and institutions, advocating for the implementation of digital reporting to improve corporate governance and social responsibility reporting. Her involvement with XBRL includes serving on the IFRS XBRL Advisory Committee and the XBRL International Steering Committee. A widely published author in international journals like the Harvard Business Review, Liv also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Disclosure and Governance. Her contributions include several significant publications such as XBRL for Dummies, The Governance, Risk and Compliance Handbook, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, and Effective Auditing for Corporations.
Liv is leading IMP’s facilitation on digitization. She also chairs IMP’s Non-financial Digital Transformation Working Group, an initiative aiming to determine if and how non-financial reporting lends itself to structured data using the open international standard for digital business reporting, XBRL.