Anna Schulz

Specialist in climate diplomacy, with a focus on working with the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations to maximise equity and climate justice.

Anna Schulz has worked in the UNFCCC negotiations since 2009, first as a writer and team leader for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and then supporting the LDC Group as a technical advisor in the transparency negotiations. She worked as a specialist at various times in mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage, resulting in deep technical expertise across a broad swathe of the negotiations, and at IIED has served as the principal legal and strategic advisor to the LDC Chair, providing high-level strategic and political advice to secure ambitious negotiated UNFCCC outcomes.

She leads work on climate diplomacy, being part of a team that delivers a capacity and mentorship programme and a climate diplomacy programme, which deliver a package of advisory and support services to the LDC Group and LDC Chair in the UNFCCC negotiations, as well as strengthen the skills and capacity of LDC negotiators, particularly women and young negotiators. Her work has shaped a deep knowledge and understanding of multilateral environmental negotiations and the dynamics of global climate governance.

Anna Schulz currently serves as a co-chair of the Research and Learning Committee and is acting chair of the Research Ethics Committee, providing strategic direction to IIED’s research portfolio as well as safeguarding, and research quality and ethics. She has also held other significant institutional leadership roles, including serving as co-leader of IIED’s Climate Change Research Group, serving as a member on IIED’s internal Strategic Management Council — responsible for the strategic direction of the Institute — and co-leading the review and reorganisation of IIED’s governance structures as a part of IIED’s institutional change process.