Alexander Baker-Shelley

About

Alex obtained his bachelors in Environmental Science with honours from the University of Manchester, UK in 2009. After volunteering as a student liaison and climate change expert to local climate forums and sustainability mentoring schemes, he left England to work in France and Italy before commencing a two year master’s program in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in 2011.

In September 2012, he started work at ICIS as an intern assigned to the European Commission funded Sustainable Urban Neighbourhoods (SUN) Project. He evaluated its efficacy in redeveloping previously derelict post-industrial neighbourhoods across the Meuse-Rhine region. Having left ICIS on completion of this work for Sweden, he wrote his master’s thesis concerning gauging corporate governance for sustainability in the reporting and accounting procedures of three Nordic mining firms.

After some contractual work at a London-based sustainability consultancy, he joined ICIS in December 2013 to commence his PhD research on modelling organisational transformation towards pathways of sustainable development at higher education institutions. The project will embed the case-studies of Maastricht University and the Green Office amongst other pioneering institutions, as well as identifying and experimenting with the effective management of organisational change and transformative performance at universities for sustainability.