Abby Chase

Profile

Abby Chase is the Executive Officer of Impact & Engagement at Oxford Net Zero, based at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Her work focuses on translating leading research on net zero, corporate climate action, and governance into stakeholder engagement, policy, and systems change across business, civil society, academia, and other key actors.

Her research examines the organisational and systemic dimensions of sustainability transitions, with a particular focus on climate leadership, corporate climate action, coalition-building, and sustainable supply chains. Her MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise, and the Environment at Oxford explored how industry collaborations can influence corporate climate leadership and the conditions that enable collective initiatives to translate ambition into meaningful system change. She partners with Oxford Climate Leadership Research Centre on research on how leaders in business, sports, and politics can more effectively drive climate action, and contributes to research on the intersection of artificial intelligence and decarbonisation outcomes through research with Unravel Carbon.

Alongside her work at Oxford, Abby is a Sustainability & Engagement Executive at Hubba, a UK circular economy solutions company, where she supports organisations in developing and implementing practical circularity solutions. She also serves as the Corporate & Policy Engagement Manager at the Race to Deliver, the next phase of the Race to Zero global net zero initiative. Prior to Oxford, she worked in management consulting, advising global organisations including Nike and lululemon on sustainable supply chains, organisational transformation, and global change implementation. She holds a MSc from Oxford, an Honours BA from the University of Toronto, and is certified in Sustainable Supply Chain Management from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She is also a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner and SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager. Outside her professional work, Abby competed internationally for Team Canada in figure skating, earning the national championship and an international gold.