Ana Yang is the director of the Environment and Society Centre at Chatham House. Her interests focus on how to drive change for a fairer and more sustainable future. Prior to joining Chatham House, Ana worked at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where she led the land use and finance workstream of the Climate Change Programme. Between 2005 and 2008, she was the executive director of FSC Brazil’s Forest Stewardship Initiative and later joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC) sustainable business advisory team, advising companies and investors on impact investments in the Amazon. She is now chair of the board of Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS – Institute for Climate and Society), a grant-making organization based in Brazil focused on climate change and social development. Ana has an MSc in social policy and development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas.
Henry Throp is a research associate for the Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator. He is interested in transforming land-based sectors to shift how products are sourced, distributed and used to support a more circular regenerative bioeconomy. Prior to joining Chatham House in 2019, he was awarded a Generation UK Scholarship from the British Council to intern at the Beijing-based NGO Greenovation Hub, researching the Paris alignment of multilateral institutions. Henry has an MSc in physics from Imperial College London, where he published work on the impact of climate change on tropical cyclone formation and oceanic carbon sequestration.
Suzannah Sherman is a research fellow for the Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator. Her work focuses on the role of innovation and finance in reaching sustainable built environments. She has previously held roles specializing in climate adaptation with the UK’s Climate Change Committee and was an environmental consultant, leading projects to provide insights and advice to private sector organizations on environmental management. Suzannah has an MSc in environmental change and management from the University of Oxford and
a BA in geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science.