Mostafa Sherbiny

Mostafa Sherbiny is an Egyptian sustainability consultant and ESG expert, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Sustainability and Carbon Footprint (ISCF), based in Cairo, Egypt. He chairs the ALECSO Scientific Chair for Carbon Footprint and Sustainability at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, holds the rank of UNFCCC Official Observer, and has served as a European Climate Pact Ambassador for Egypt since 2022.

Born in Cairo in 1966, Sherbiny graduated from Cairo University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and later studied management at the Sadat Academy for Management Sciences. He began his career in accounting and auditing, a background that shapes his treatment of carbon measurement as a verification discipline. He is a Certified Public Accountant accredited by Egypt's Ministry of Finance, holds the FSA Credential from the IFRS Foundation, is a lead auditor certified by IRCA and the Chartered Quality Institute, and is a CPD UK accredited international trainer.

At ISCF he leads an organisation providing ESG reporting assurance, carbon footprint verification and professional certification, with teams in Egypt, the United States and the United Kingdom and clients in sixteen countries. Under his leadership the institute was accredited as a Validation and Verification Body. His technical work covers greenhouse gas quantification under the GHG Protocol and ISO 14064, product carbon footprints under ISO 14067, compliance with the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, sustainability disclosure under IFRS S1 and S2 and the CSRD and ESRS standards, carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and climate risk assessment.

Sherbiny founded the Climate Ambassadors Initiative, a partnership registered on the United Nations SDG platform, which has trained more than 3,100 climate professionals and delivered over 2,000 awareness events and seminars. He also founded the Carbon Neutral Pioneers Initiative, the Auditors and Experts Initiative for Sustainability and Climate Risk Assessment, and the Water Footprint Pioneers Initiative, each registered with the UN.

He is the author of the Encyclopedia of Carbon Neutrality, an eight volume Arabic language reference series published between 2022 and 2025. He has also published Audit Ready: A Practical Guide to Carbon Footprint Verification, CBAM and Sustainability Assurance in English.

As a UNFCCC Observer he attends the UN Climate Change Conferences and the Bonn intersessional sessions, and has taken part in UN working groups on adaptation, climate finance, health and the new collective quantified goal. His recognition includes the Prince Mohammed bin Fahd Medal for Best Voluntary Work in Sustainable Development (2021), the Excellence in Climate Adaptation Award (2022) and the ALECSO Honour Shield (2023). He serves on the board of the Volunteer Team Foundation for Humanitarian Action.