Emily Robinson
Honorary Secretary
Emily is a Senior Executive with more than 17 years of experience in investment banking and financial services. She is currently the Chief Operating and Financial Officer at Pico Analytics – working on Sustainability Disclosures, Climate Risk impact and ESG Regulations into Asset Management, Pension Fund, and Hedge Fund strategies.
Emily is passionate about solving the climate crisis and recently earned an Accredited Master in Renewable Energy from the Renewable Energy Institute at the European Centre of Technology. She has a Certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Bachelor’s with Honours in International Relations, German, and European Studies from Canisius University, Buffalo, New York.
In 2017, Emily was trained by Nobel Laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore as a Certified Climate Reality Project Leader in order to promote education and understanding about climate change. In 2020, Emily joined as a Trustee to the Board of Bread and Water for Africa UK and the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council, she was elected Honorary Secretary of CHEC in November 2021. In 2023 Emily was elected President of the General Board of Assembly of Portuguese Animal Protection Charity Associação Ninovan.
In 2021, Emily organised and spoke at CHEC’s inaugural Earth Day Event and was part of the CHEC delegate team that attended COP26 in Glasgow. Emily represented CHEC at the 68th Session of the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women (CSW68) in New York in March of 2024 and was elected to the Board of the Human Ecology Foundation (HEF) in July.