Ashleigh Theophanides

Chief Sustainability Officer Deloitte Africa

Ashleigh is the Executive Chief Sustainability Officer for Deloitte Africa with responsibility for developing and implementing the firm’s sustainability strategy in 11 countries across the African firm. This covers public policy, supporting local communities through strategic partnerships and leveraging strategic networks, capabilities and resources, embedding a sustainability culture across the firm and achieving science-based net zero with near-term 2030 goals.  

Ashleigh is also responsible for the Next Generation Council which is a group of millennials and Gen Zs across the Deloitte Africa countries that provide input to the Executive to ensure relevance in the firm’s business practices and engagements.   

In her 20 years of experience, Ashleigh has worked across the private and public healthcare sectors, with government departments, financial services organisations, mining operations and telecoms operators.  

As a qualified health actuary, she has provided benefit design actuarial valuations and pricing strategies. She is also recognised as a leader in disease modelling. Outside of the scheme environment, Ashleigh focused on helping multi-national companies with market entry strategies and model design, market assessment & forecasting and big data analytics engagements.  

Ashleigh also leads Deloitte Africa’s Health Equity Institute (DHEI), a global initiative aimed at improving health equity on the continent.