Annabel Short
Principal, It's Material; Research Fellow, IHRB
Annabel is Principal at It’s Material, a consultancy focused on economic transformation and accountability, through research, facilitation and strategic advice. As an IHRB research fellow Annabel provides guidance to the built environment programme.
Annabel has two decades of experience on business, human rights and climate change, at the international and local city level. Her work has focused on emerging areas of human rights, creative approaches to strategy and campaigns, and sectors with major social and environmental implications such as finance, technology, energy, real estate, and infrastructure. She wrote IHRB’s 2019 foundational report “Dignity by Design: Human Rights and the Built Environment Lifecycle” and developed and led the built environment programme between 2019 – 2022, including its project on just transitions in the built environment.
Previously, Annabel was Deputy Director of ALIGN (Alliance for a Greater New York), which advocates for bold climate action, good jobs and social justice in New York City. From 2003-2017, Annabel was Intl. Programme Manager then Deputy Director with Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, where she helped build the organisation and its global presence, and was responsible for the Asia, Middle East and labour rights programmes.
Annabel has an MsC in International Development from University of London; certificate in International Human Rights Law and Practice from London School of Economics; postgraduate diploma in Periodical Journalism from City University; and an MA in Spanish and French from Edinburgh University.
