Mr. Shaheed Osman is a Chartered Accountant CA(SA) and a Registered Auditor (RA).

Shaheed is a Partner and Head of ESG Assurance at KPMG South Africa and serves as the ESG reporting and assurance technical lead focusing on the reporting implications of ESG-related matters and the assurance thereof. Shaheed is the engagement partner or quality reviewer on a number of listed ESG assurance engagements. He is responsible for the overall client interaction and management of multi-disciplinary teams providing readiness reviews and assurance engagements across various industries.

Shaheed also serves on the KPMG global sustainability reporting technical topic team , a member of the IRC SA working group and a member of the IRBA Sustainability Standing Committee (SSC).