Anna-Julia MCVEIGH

Anna-Julia is a passionate advocate for climate and nature within business and NGO settings. Her mixed heritage from Brazil and the UK are ever present in her interactions, both personal and professional. At the Nature Positive Initiative, she brings her strategy and partnerships experience to the small secretariat team to help enable more strategic relationships to scale Nature Positive.

She brings 15+ years of consulting experience, most recently leading a practice in Accenture Development Partnerships on Climate & Environment, championing their expansion into Nature & Biodiversity topics with clients in the environmental NGO sector. She has expertise in organisational strategy and visioning as well as designing transformational change journeys. She participated in Accenture’s collaboration with DEFRA and the UK Council for Sustainable Business to help big business understand their impacts on nature, building a campaign to Get Nature Positive ahead of COP26, Glasgow, 2021, which inspired her shift to wanting to elevate nature to the same level of urgency as that of the climate emergency.

Previously Anna-Julia worked with Finance Services organisations in both Assurance and Advisory roles, with a qualification as a chartered accountant (ICAEW). Her academic background includes completing a BSc Economy History from the London School of Economics, an MBA from IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland and more recently an Executive MSc in International Strategy and Diplomacy from LSE IDEAS.