Ashleigh is a Deputy Director at Shift, the leading centre for expertise on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. She leads Shift’s work with financial institutions, including banks, asset owners and managers, export credit agencies and development finance institutions. She also works with Shift’s real economy company partners, industry associations and standard setters. Ashleigh has led research examining the risks to human rights that are inherent in companies’ business models, culminating in the publication of a set of Business Model Red Flags. She has a breadth of experience approaching the Guiding Principles from business, legal and academic perspectives and brings a holistic view to Guiding Principles implementation. Ashleigh was previously a lawyer with Herbert Smith Freehills and thereafter Executive Director at Ernst & Young’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services in Japan. She has lectured in Economic Cost Benefit Analysis at Columbia University and sits on an advisory board to UNITAR, the UN’s training arm.
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