Mark Ashurst Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Amsterdam | London

Seasoned advisers to purpose-led organisations: Leaders’ Bureau provides tactical support to win social licence, deliver content strategy and drive systemic change.Leaders' Bureau is a provider of strategic communications, stakeholder management and advisory services with a track record of enduring good outcomes from content-led partnerships at the state, industry and multilateral levels.As specialists in thought leadership and B2B knowledge platforms, outcomes from our work in climate strategy and decarbonisation include high Dow Jones Sustainability Index ratings for Euronext-listed corporates including Philips, Signify and Prosus (new entrant 2021).

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

The Mission Possible Partnership is a movement of climate leaders and companies driving industrial decarbonisation across the entire value chain of the world’s highest-emitting resources and transport sectors. By leveraging the convening power and expertise of organisations committed to climate action, MPP has developed operationally relevant, industry-endorsed strategies for net zero transformation in seven sectors; aviation, shipping, trucking, and aluminium, chemicals, concrete, steel. MPP is supported by Bezos Earth Fund and led by four core partners: the Energy Transitions Commission, chaired by Lord Adair Turner; Rocky Mountain Institute; We Mean Business Coalition; and the World Economic Forum. Our ambition is to enable industry—energy, financiers, customers and suppliers—to commission First Projects at scale in this decisive decade.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Follow This is a group of more than 10,000 activist and institutional investors committed to support oil and gas companies to align with the goals of the Paris Agreement. My role ranges from negotiation at C-suite level with energy incumbents and fiduciaries, to articulating relevant aspects of the Follow This experience in the Netherlands to media and the investment community in other jurisdictions. Translating this strategy to the capital markets has brought new clarity, transparency and strengthened the case for science-based targets in the energy transition from fossil fuels. In September 2020, Follow This criteria for binding emissions targets were endorsed by the Climate Action 100+ alliance of investors in the world's most polluting companies, with assets under management of more than $50 trillion. During the 2021 AGM season, Follow This resolutions for disclosure on Scope 3 product emissions by US oil majors secured majority ballots at Chevron, Conoco Phillips and Phillips66.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Circle Economy is a business accelerator working with industry and cities on practical, scalable models for a circular economy of shared prosperity within planetary boundaries. My role included building an iterative content pipeline for CE's specialist teams and communities of practice; the 2019 launch of the Global Circularity Gap metric at Davos; and advising CE's 50+ member companies - a community that spans multinational corporates, innovative start-ups, and multi-stakeholder alliances including WEF's Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) and the Capital Equipment Coalition. A WEF Knowledge Partner, CE's programme of work is focused on material scans for cities, companies, nation states and the planet. The Global Circularity Gap Report, a new benchmark for measuring circularity, found the world is only 9.1% circular, with the balance of resources either wasted or added to existing economic stocks.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Philips Lighting (AEX: LIGHT) is part of the Philips global technology group (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) founded in Eindhoven in 1891. The market leader in energy-efficient lighting and connected lighting applications for the Internet of Things, Philips Lighting is world No.1 in conventional lighting sold, LED lighting sold, and lighting systems and services.Scope of role:* Developed thought leadership content across business groups, markets and corporate functions including sustainability and public activism* Supported brand and company narrative, pre- and post- new company IPO in May 2016* Positioned smart lighting as key ‘horizontal’ for emerging new use cases in IoT* Led thought leadership strategy and managed agencies under the One Voice global partnershipWith sales of EUR 7.4 billion in 2015 and 33,000 employees worldwide, Philips Lighting ranked 8th in the 2016 Corporate Knights Clean 200 list of green companies; and scored a top 100-points rating from the Carbon Disclosure Project."Philips leadership offers the real possibility of extending sustainable energy to all. New pathways of low carbon growth are a solution for climate change and inequality" -- Rachel Kyte, United Nations Special Representative for Sustainable Energy

London, United Kingdom

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/author/mark-ashurst

London

Launched a new think tank from inception, with a brief to identify and propagate ideas with a record of success in Africa. Responsible for staff recruitment, strategic direction, commissioning of research, all political and public liaison - reporting to trustees.www.africaresearchinstitute.org

Johannesburg; London - Africa - Americas

Ba Hons. University College, Master'S Scholar

Joachim Herz Foundation Fellow, Joint Master Of Law (Mlb)

Joint Master Of Business (Mlb)

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