Alexis McGivern

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Alexis McGivern is Head of Stakeholder Engagement and a Research Fellow at Oxford Net Zero. Her work focuses on strengthening the governance, credibility, and justice-alignment of corporate net zero commitments, with particular attention to equity and accountability.

Alexis leads the Serviced Emissions Hub, which is a research and engagement initiative helping professional services providers (law firms, consulting firms, ad agencies) take responsibility for the climate impact of their advice and ensure net zero standards better recognise their influence. Alexis is a member of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Technical Working Group, contributing to the first revision of the Corporate Standard in over twenty years. 

Her work also spans education and capacity-building from youth activists to senior business leaders.  She co-leads the  Oxford Sustainable Business Programme, an executive education initiative for sustainability leaders. She also co-created and co-lead the Global Youth Climate Training Programme, which equipped more than 5,400 young climate activists with a deep understanding of the UNFCCC negotiation during its three-year run.

Alexis previously worked at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on marine biodiversity conservation. She completed a dual degree at the University of Oxford as a Pershing Square Scholar, earning an MPhil in Geography and the Environment, focused on the politics of waste incineration and community resistance in the UK, and an MBA at Saïd Business School. She has a background in community organising for refugee rights and asylum seeker integration in Switzerland, where she grew up, and in mutual aid work supporting low-income households in Oxford during the COVID-19 pandemic.