Ellen Quigley

Professor Ellen Quigley is the Director of Finance for Systemic Change and a Research Professor at the University of Cambridge whose work focuses on building the intellectual and practical foundations of a more sustainable and equitable financial system. To this end, she convenes and advises some of the world’s largest and most influential asset owners to confront and reshape systemic risks such as climate change and inequality through their investment and stewardship policies and practices. Her widely-deployed framework, “Universal Ownership in Practice” – which received the GRASFI Paper Prize for Potential Impact on Sustainable Finance Practices – provides a practical guide for asset owners to deliver real-world outcomes in service of a stable long-term financial system. A forthcoming book building on this work will be published in 2026 by Cambridge University Press as part of its Elements in Corporate Governance series.