Jane Upperton

Name:  Jane Upperton
Role:     Managing Director

Experience:  Jane is an expert in the management of external affairs and in writing documents with the needs of the audience in mind.   She has twelve years’ experience as a business and industry reporter including six as a foreign correspondent in Moscow from 1992.  She managed external affairs, including public consultation and impact assessment and aspects of project financing, in new projects for Shell (2000-2003). Independent since 2004 she has conducted project management, research and analysis for major international corporations including BP, Shell, AMEC and the United Nations Environmental Programme.

Key Skills: Desktop research, analysis, stakeholder analysis and engagement, report writing and project management, languages: Russian, French, Spanish, Italian.

Key Methods: formal and informal interviewing techniques, impact assessment.