Sharan Burrow has worked closely with global leaders and representatives from nations and civil society, including during the creation of the Paris Agreement, as the former General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation for a decade and as President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions for the prior decade.

She is currently a non-executive director, Vice Chair of the European Climate Foundation, a Visiting Professor at Practice to the LSE-Grantham Institute, a Special Advisor to the IEA Commission on People Centred Transitions, a B Team leader, a member of the Commission on Global Climate Governance and an advisory group member of the new WRI-Polsky Center for the Global Energy Transition, co-chaired by the IEA CEO Fatih Birol.