Ana Yang

Ana Yang is Executive Director of the Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator. Ana has extensive professional experience related to sustainability and climate change, backed by twenty years of experience spanning the private sector, development finance, civil society, philanthropy and the laboratory of ideas. Her current interests focus on understanding how finance and innovation can enable the transition to deep sustainability. Prior to Chatham House, Ana worked at the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, where she led the Climate Change Program's land use and finance workflow. Between 2005 and 2008, she was Executive Director of the Forest Stewardship Initiative at FSC Brasil and later joined the Sustainable Business Consulting team at the International Finance Corporation (IFC),

Throughout her career, Ana has developed a deep understanding of how to manage global networks and complex multi-stakeholder processes, with a history of working in the North and South hemispheres. Her experiences allow her to navigate the different contexts of political economy and the dilemma of balancing the sustainability transition with the challenges of social inequality. Born and raised in Brazil, of Taiwanese descent, and now living in the UK, Ana is fluent in four languages ​​(English, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish) and is able to navigate cultural nuances and take advantage of the opportunities that arise from diversity.

He currently holds two positions on the Philanthropy Board, as an Independent Thematic Specialist and as a Charitable Governance Specialist with experience in transition and organizational management. Ana is now chairman of the board of Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS), a Brazil-based grantmaking organization focused on climate change and social development.

Ana holds a degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas and a master's degree in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.