Australia Day Ambassador
Anna Rose
Ambassador for Gunnedah Shire Council
Anna Rose, founder and Co-Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC), is the 2009 Environment Minister's joint 'Young Environmentalist of the Year'. AYCC is 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 the Sydney University student paper 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 ‘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 20 young Australians to the Copenhagen negotiations. After completing part of her law degree at Cornell Law School, Anna spent seven months in the United States, including volunteering on the Obama campaign in the New Hampshire Primary. Anna is a member of the Environment Minister's Advisory Council on Environmental Education.
She holds a degree in Arts (Asian Studies)/ Law (Hons I) from the University of Sydney, 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.
