Speakers Profile - Anna Rose










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Canberra

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Anna is a respected leader in the environment movement who has worked for more than two decades to help Australia make progress on climate change and conservation. In 2019 she founded Environmental Leadership Australia in partnership with The Myer Foundation to reach outside the traditional environment movement and support leadership that would lay the groundwork for bipartisan progress towards climate solutions. Anna's background is in community engagement, including leading Earth Hour working with councils, schools and small business. Anna is a Director of Farmers for Climate Action, a Governor of WWF-Australia, a former lecturer and atthe Australian National University and a former associate at Melbourne University Sustainable Society Institute. Anna is the author of the book "Madlands: A Journey to Change the Mind of a Climate Sceptic" (MUP, 2012), based on a journey with former Finance Minister Nick Minchin that was also turned into a broadcast documentary. She is a Churchill Fellow, a former Myer Foundation Innovation Fellow, was named one of the Australian Financial Review/Westpac's 100 Women of Influence and is a member of Chief Executive Women. Anna has a combined Bachelor in Arts and Law with first class honours from the University of Sydney.