2009 Alumni Award for Young Alumni Achievement

Ms Anna Rose (BA '05 LLB '08) 

Anna Rose is the recipient of the Alumni Award for Young Alumni Achievement for her commitment to tackling the urgent issue of climate change in Australia and around the world. She holds a degree in Arts (Asian Studies)/ Law (Hons I) from the University of Sydney and is a former resident of Wesley College.

Anna is the founder and Co-Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, a partnership of Australia’s biggest 25 youth organisations united to build a generation wide movement to solve climate change. Anna was National Environment Officer for the Australian National Union of Students in 2005 and is past National Convenor of the Australian Student Environment Network. She is a former editor of Honi Soit and a regular speaker and opinion writer on climate and energy issues in Australia and the United States. Anna is a chapter author of the book The Future by Us and a regular blogger on Crikey. In 2005 Anna was a youth representative to the United Nations Kyoto Protocol negotiations in Montreal and in 2007 was a youth delegate to the UN Secretary General's Meeting on Climate Change in New York. This December she will lead a delegation of 25 young Australians to the Copenhagen negotiations. After completing part of her University of Sydney law degree at Cornell Law School, Anna spent seven months working with the progressive movement in the United States, including the Obama campaign in the New Hampshire Primary. Anna is a member of the Environment Minister's Advisory Council on Environmental Education. She is a Fellow of the International Youth Foundation, sits on the board of the Foundation for Young Australians’ ‘Young Social Pioneers’ Program, and holds an Australian Leadership Award from Australian-Davos connection. Anna is the 2009 Environment Minister's 'Young Environmentalist of the Year' along with her co-directors Amanda McKenzie and Ellen Sandell.