Nick Welch BA

Nick has extensive international experience supporting new business development, exploration, projects and operations through the management of political, environmental, social and stakeholder issues and risks. He is adept at defining problems and solutions for non-technical issues in ambiguous, rapidly changing contexts. As portfolios, policy and issues evolve, he has a well-honed ability to rapidly develop and tap new networks to inform and underpin analysis, solutions and action. To address competing stakeholder needs, Nick deploys his expertise in navigating differing national, local and corporate cultures, and his ability to view organizations and challenges from differing external perspectives. Nick has managed project creation and roll out of a global climate change strategy for a leading multinational energy company. He has driven organizational change and developed and implemented policies and practices to better equip companies to succeed in the face of growing stakeholder interest and the intersection of financial and societal interests in the ESG arena. Nick has spearheaded numerous ground-breaking strategic external relations and communications programs to achieve policy and business goals related to company projects, operations and interests across the globe. Nick’s career has included a series of senior internationally focused roles with Royal Dutch Shell, Noble Energy, the United Kingdom government and as a consultant.