Background

Linh Do (Research Committee)


Linh Do is passionate about climate justice and social inequality. She has spent the last decade working across advocacy and engagement, media and social enterprise. Linh is the director of the Wattle Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and a board member at Climate Action Network Australia.

In the lead up to the Paris negotiations, Linh was  the publisher and editor-in-chief of The Verb, where she worked with a global team to localise and humanise stories from the UN climate change negotiations. Most recently, Linh was Australia and Pacific lead for The Climate Reality Project, Al Gore’s climate change leadership program.

Linh has worked with a wide array of individuals, from high school students to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Reuters Foundation. She is a co-founder of the technology start-up OurSay, she formerly led the community organising program at the Australian Conservation Foundation and has worked with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on communicating policy.

Linh is signed with Claxton Speakers and her work has been featured in publications including Al Jazeera, Vogue, the Huffington Post and the Washington Post.