Dr Ellen Quigley

Ellen Quigley is a Principal Research Associate, the Co-Director of Finance for Environmental and Social Systemic Change, and the Special Adviser (Responsible Investment) to the Chief Financial Officer, all at the University of Cambridge. Her work centres on the mitigation of climate change and inequality through the investment policies and practices of institutional investors.

Academic interests

Ellen Quigley's academic interests include:

• Sustainable finance
• Climate risk
• Economics and business school education.

Degrees obtained

• AB, Harvard College.
• MSc, University of Oxford.
• PhD, Cantab.

Biography

Ellen is from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and holds an AB in English literature from Harvard College, an MSc in Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in economics education from the University of Cambridge.

Her article, Universal Ownership in Practice: A Practical Investment Framework for Asset Owners, won the GRASFI Paper Prize for Potential Impact on Sustainable Finance Practices in 2020.

Other interests

Long yet (probably overly) fast hikes.