Biography
Ana Yang is the director for the Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator. Her interests focus on how to drive change for a fairer and more sustainable future.
Ana has strong interdisciplinary work experience and is currently working on understanding how finance and innovation can enable the deep sustainability transition.
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 and focused on climate change and social development.
Ana has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Fundacao Getulio Vargas and an MSc in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
