Ghinwa joined BSI 3 years ago and is BSI Director of Group sustainability, in charge of BSI’s own internal sustainability performance and helping BSI become a more sustainable business in its operations. Ghinwa aims to achieve this through the use of sustainability standards and BSI’s own commercial sustainability solutions. She leads the Operational Sustainability Excellence team. Under her leadership, BSI has been a finalist for several prestigious sustainability awards in 2023 and 2024 including Reuters Responsible Business awards, Business Green awards, Edie awards, and United Nations Global Compact Pioneer. Before joining BSI, Ghinwa worked for 10 years in the energy industry as a sustainability specialist and leader on nuclear new build, existing nuclear, coal, gas and renewable generation, and decommissioning. Before that, Ghinwa was a senior sustainability consultant at an engineering firm and was embedded in large infrastructure projects such as London 2012 Olympic Park, Crossrail (rail), highway widening, etc. projects. Ghinwa has a Masters in Science degree in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford. She is multilingual and has an international working experience.
