Speakers

Pru Ashby is Head of Sustainability for London & Partners and leads their Urban Innovation and Sustainability sector work, championing the sustainability strategy to support the L&P mission, which is to create economic growth that is resilient, sustainable and inclusive. Pru has responsibility for maintaining and delivering their urban innovation and sustainability sector work and promoting London as a sustainable city to high growth scale up innovation companies from around the world.

Pru has spent over 16 years with London & Partners where she has developed a strong reputation in supporting companies in their globalisation. She completed a secondment at Tech City UK, the team set up by the UK Government to support Tech City, now the largest tech cluster in Europe, and is seen as pivotal to its growth. She has an extensive network of connections within the tech community in London, the USA and globally and was also based in New York for 2 years for London & Partners.

Previously, Pru studied engineering at university and lived and worked in Australia, New Zealand and China in the utilities and events sectors.