Tariq Desai joins ReportingLab as co-founder

Copenhagen, 9 November 2026 — ReportingLab, an AI-native financial and sustainability reporting consultancy, today announced that Tariq Desai has joined as co-founder alongside Simon Taylor.

Desai advises companies with complex global supply chains on human rights due diligence and sustainability reporting. His work spans the Norwegian Transparency Act, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). At ReportingLab, he will help clients assess risks in their supply chains, decide where to act and explain those decisions in their reporting.

Before joining ReportingLab, Desai was a Director at Position Green, where he led its supply chain and human rights practice, in addition to being the CSRD service lead in Oslo. He ran due diligence projects under the Norwegian Transparency Act, conducted double materiality assessments and contributed to some of the first ESRS reports published in Europe.

A solicitor qualified in England and Wales, he previously researched corporate accountability at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and is a member of the GRI Advisory Group for labour and human rights standards.

“Tariq understands what it takes to make due diligence work inside companies with opaque supply chains,” said Simon Taylor, co-founder of ReportingLab. “He brings experience of the decisions that sit behind a report, from which risks to prioritise to what evidence supports the conclusions.”

"Human rights due diligence is becoming mandatory across the European Union, and the UK has just committed to follow suit," said Tariq Desai. "Due diligence has a strategic role in decisions about where and who companies source from, addressing impacts on workers and communities before they become disruptions. I joined ReportingLab to help companies bring due diligence into those decisions."

About ReportingLab

ReportingLab is an AI-native financial and sustainability reporting consultancy. It combines expert judgement with purpose-built AI tools to help companies make better decisions and produce stronger reporting. Based in Copenhagen, ReportingLab serves companies across Europe, the US and beyond.