Dr Isabel DiVanna

Associate Director, Sustainable Finance at Carbon Trust

Speaker

Isabel is an award-winning strategist, marketing and business development professional. She has held senior business development roles at Eunomia Research & Consulting and served as Commercial Director at RenewableUK, EngineeringUK, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Bar Council. Isabel has been working in sustainability since 2011, when she led His (then) Royal Highness Business and Sustainability Programme at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She worked on the TCFD task force at the Bar Council and has created ESG strategies across both the legal and renewable energy sectors, aligning companies’ ESG efforts to regulatory disclosures. Isabel’s specialism is strategic revenue growth with a focus on sustainability underpinning all forms of top-line growth. She has worked in professional services across FMCG, legal, med tech, engineering, renewable energy, defense & aerospace, and pharma. She studied at Cambridge, Harvard Business School, Saïd Business School and The University of Manchester, holding diplomas in sustainability as well as an MBA and PhD.