Ashley joined RLAM in November 2013 following the acquisition of The Co-operative Asset Management (TCAM) by the Royal London Group. Ashley is responsible for coordinating and overseeing RLAM’s approach to responsible investing across all of our asset classes. She has management responsibility for our company engagement, corporate governance analysis, and proxy voting. She is also a core member of RLAM’s Sustainable Investment team which manages RLAM’s award-winning Sustainable Funds. Ashley is RLAM’s subject matter expert and spokesperson on responsible investing and corporate governance, and provides regular press commentary. Before joining RLAM, Ashley was a Shareholder Engagement Executive at PIRC where she conducted corporate engagement and ESG analysis for the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF). Prior to that she was a research analyst and corporate engagement consultant for SHARE, a proxy voting and shareholder engagement consultancy based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a Master of Arts degree (Political Science) and a Bachelor of Arts degree (Political Science and Sociology) from the University of British Columbia.