Director – 1Earth Pty Ltd – Australia
With an academic and professional background in science, business, and finance, Eva is an experienced advisor and consultant on integrating environmental, social and governance values in finance.
She was Head of Sustainability and Climate Change to FINSIA, the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, worked for the UN in Geneva, Switzerland and for a federal minister in Australia. As an ethical investment advisor in Australia, she advised individuals and NGOs on ethical or Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) portfolio strategies and wrote industry courses on this topic for the investment industry.
Eva founded and was the Chair of The Climate Council Inc, whose aim was to integrate federal and investment industry initiatives on climate change. She was a delegate to a number of the international UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol meetings and served on a federal government selection panel for clean technologies.
She speaks five languages and is certified as a permaculture teacher. As one of the Australian Ecotourism founders, she established the first national cetacean-based tourism industry association and served as its inaugural Chair.
She sits on the Advisory Boards of Ethical Markets LLC, USA, the Climate Prosperity Alliance, USA, Climate Futures, Macquarie University, Australia and is a member of UN Harmony with Nature.
Over the past years, her focus has shifted to partnering with traditional Indigenous elders from around the world to integrate sustainable innovations and systems thinking with traditional knowledge and a profound respect and connection to Land, Country and Spirit.
She founded the NFP 1Earth Institute Inc, together with an Indigenous elder.
https://1earth-institute.net
