About IESG
We deliver the tools you need to understand and mitigate your climate impact.
Our
purpose.
We are passionate about international education and climate action. We want to see an international education sector that thrives and that considers, and mitigates, its climate impact.
Co-Founders.
Ailsa Lamont
Climate action. Sustainability.
Ailsa was a senior leader in Australian universities before switching focus to help our sector act on climate. She has trained with Al Gore as a Climate Reality Leader and served as a NAFSA Senior Fellow for Sustainability.
Ailsa was co-founder and inaugural president of CANIE: Climate Action Network for International Educators. In 2023, she was awarded the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Excellence Award for Distinguished Contribution to International Education.
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Emily O'Callaghan
Governance. Advisory.
Emily is CEO and co-founder of MixAbroad, a global platform measuring the impact and experience of education abroad programs and internationalisation at home. She has over two decades of experience in international education, working across policy, advocacy and research in higher education, engaging with government, institutions and industry stakeholders worldwide. She is an Asialink Leaders Program alumna, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Senior Fellow. Emily serves on the Executive Board of the Climate Action Network for International Educators (CANIE).
Our people.
John Crick
Director, Partnerships (UK & Europe)
John has held senior positions across the international education sector for more than two decades. His journey from marketing and international student recruitment through to operations, immigration and compliance has led him to take a keen interest in Sustainability and Net Zero in the #intled sector. As an Associate member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (AIEMA), Climate FRESK and Small99 CRAB facilitator, John is now focused on helping institutions right across the sector drive meaningful change in this critical area.
Gemma Morrison
Director, Partnerships (US, Canada)
Gemma is dedicated to strategising climate action to mitigate GHG emissions and adapt to climate change. She holds a B.S. in Earth Science from Pennsylvania State University, focusing on sustainability leadership. With experience studying sustainability abroad, she is eager to create similar opportunities for future leaders. Gemma has worked as a student consultant through the Local Climate Action Program, developing emissions inventory and climate action planning skills. She also served as a Sustainability Assistant for Penn State Global, coordinating student programs and sustainability projects.
Estrid Jonsson
Emissions Expert. Climate Eye
Estrid is a fourth-year international student studying MEng Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Aberdeen. Having previously worked for the Sustainability Team in Estates and Facilities at the University of Aberdeen, she developed a methodology to calculate student travel emissions now adopted by the EAUC: The Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education.
Ivan Hasjim
Lead Analyst
Ivan is a skilled Business Analyst with a strong background in data analytics in international education. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne, where he has been working since he completed his degree. As a former international student he is passionate about the international education field and how to best use data to improve the student experience.
Advisory board.
Dr Adrienne Fusek
Adrienne Fusek, Ed.D. is the Executive Director and Founder of In Good Company (IGC) and a lecturer at San Diego State University (SDSU), where she teaches Sustainability and Environmental Science. Prior to shifting focus to advance climate justice in her local community, Adrienne served in various international education roles for 18 years. Her work includes serving as a founding board member of CANIE where she co-founded the Climate Justice working group and was the lead author of the COP26 Glasgow Paper and CANIE Accord. Adrienne also co-wrote the guidelines aligning education abroad with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with the Forum on Education Abroad.
Dr Carmen Primo Perez
Carmen is the Senior Sustainability Officer at the University of Tasmania, where she has been a sustainability professional since 2012 and she is committed to help the university advance in all sustainability matters. She has a passion for climate change issues and education for sustainability, partly because of her background as an academic in environmental sciences, discipline in which she worked as an academic for 10 years in both Spain and Australia. Carmen is also a Director of Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) and a Steering Committee member of STARS (Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System).
Professor Robin Shields
Robin Shields is a professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of Queensland in Australia. His research examines how new sources of data and statistical models can be used to understand global trends in education, and his recent work has focused on how international education is implicated in the crisis of global climate change. Professor Shields has held grants from major international funders, and he is currently Global Ambassador for the Climate Action Network for International Education (CANIE) and chair of its Academic Advisory Board.
Professor Christopher Ziguras
Chris is Director of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne where his work focuses on the internationalisation of higher education. He has worked extensively with industry bodies, professional associations and government agencies on a wide range of projects and partnerships to jointly undertake research, teaching, professional development, policy advocacy, student mobility and work placements. Chris was President of the IEAA (2015-18) and in 2022 received the IEAA Award for Distinguished Contribution to International Education. He currently chairs the Academic Board of the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation at Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, Milan.