Ashley’s career has featured teaching, research, consulting and corporate management of sustainability issues in over thirty countries, including work with Shell in Brazil, Canada, Nigeria, Peru, and the USA. He is currently NGO & Stakeholder Relations Manager for Shell in the Americas, a role that includes work around the food-energy-water stress nexus, particularly the environmental and social challenges, as well as opportunities, of producing and using energy in the world.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, he was a senior lecturer in applied ecology and environmental assessment at Farnborough College and Sunderland University, England. He was also director of an international training program in environmental management and assessment at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Ashley is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society and has a PhD in ecology from Coventry University, England, earned from studying soils, ground flora and native forest restoration on the beautiful Isle of Rum in the Scottish Hebrides.
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