Dr Anna Young-Ferris is an ESG/sustainability pioneer with a career spanning over 20 years in corporate, academic and consulting roles. She joined Elanor Investors Group in July 2024 as Head of ESG and is excited to put her theory into practice that capital markets can be used for positive financial and ESG impact. She regularly consults to industry, providing expert advice on leading ESG strategy in a dynamic and ever evolving business environment.
Anna remains an Adjunct faculty member at the University of Sydney Business School and is recipient of the prestigious 2023 United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Award for leading the strategic integration of the SDGs into teaching, research, and organisational practices across the Business School and the wider university. She led this work for six years (2017-2023) and is also the recipient of the University's 2022 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability.
Anna’s award-winning research lies at the intersection of responsible investment and carbon/sustainability accounting, and how investors translate this nascent information in their investment decisions. More recently, she has been translating this interest into scholarly research in the field of responsible management education. She publishes in top business journals and presents at international conferences.
Anna is also an award-winning educator and passionate about transforming business narrative from the single-minded pursuit of profit to advancing a responsible business mindset where social and environmental impacts are understood as interconnected with financial impacts. She designed and leads one of the biggest units in the Business School with over 2000 students and 50 staff each semester called Responsible Business Mindset (BUSS5220).
