Ylenia Caruana

Ylenia joined Deloitte in 2022. She brings with her 11 years of work experience within the public sector, starting off as diplomat, and further specialising in EU affairs. She has extensive experience in public policy development and stakeholder consultation. Throughout her career within the public sector, Ylenia worked within the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability space. She was responsible for the coordination of researching, developing and implementing public policies within this space, at a national level. More specifically, she worked on assessing the Impact Assessments of EU Commission proposals, whilst understanding the bearing such proposals would have on the relevant industries, carried out stakeholder consultations, and coordinated positions to be taken during negotiations, at EU Council meetings and bilateral meetings with the EU Commission. Ylenia has extensive experience acting as Malta’s representative at EU and UN level meetings relating to environment and sustainability, and even co-chaired two Council Working Parties, during Malta’s EU Council Presidency of 2017. ​

At Deloitte, Ylenia manages the ESG team that assists clients with their ESG needs, be it the development of an ESG strategy, to assisting in achieving compliance with ESG legislation. She also assists multiple service lines with issues relating to sustainability, in relation to climate and decarbonisation, social and governance issues. Ylenia also assists in the coordination of Malta’s contribution Deloitte’s internal sustainability commitments as set out by ‘WorldClimate’ – Deloitte’s strategy and commitments to drive responsibly climate choices within our orgnisation and beyond, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.