Dr Ellen Quigley was a Senior Research Associate in Climate Risk & Sustainable Finance at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) and is the Special Adviser (Responsible Investment) to the Chief Financial Officer 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. She 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.
Ellen now leads the Finance for Systemic Change Centre in the Department of Land Economy.
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Divestment: Advantages and Disadvantages for the University of Cambridge
Report by Ellen Quigley, Emily Budgen, Anthony Odgers
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To Divest or to Engage? A Case Study of Investor Responses to Climate Activism
Peer-reviewed paper by David Chambers, Elroy Dimson, Ellen Quigley
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Business School Rankings for the 21st Century
Report by David Pitt-Watson, Ellen Quigley