Young leader harnesses AI to help streamline sustainability disclosure |
These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity.
Fatou Dieng combines sharp technical expertise with a deep commitment to ensuring young people have a seat at decision-making tables as we work toward a net-zero, socially just economy. This 29-year-old Montrealer, originally from Senegal, was named to Corporate Knights’ 30 Under 30: Canada's youth sustainability leaders of 2025 for her work with Manifest Climate, where she helps train artificial intelligence to support organizations to better understand and align with regulator preferences for climate action disclosure, as well as with Leading Change Canada, where she empowers youth to participate meaningfully in decision-making.
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At Manifest Climate, I support organizations in integrating climate disclosure frameworks, meeting regulatory requirements and building robust climate action strategies and am helping use AI for sustainability. In 2025, we provided a major financial regulator with in-depth analyses of corporate disclosures, enabling it to assess which companies had board-level awareness,........