Shelley is a Senior Advisor to the Parasol Foundation

She is a senior strategic communications professional and trusted advisor with substantial international experience acquired working across five continents.

Shelley provides communications counsel and support for the Parasol Foundation’s charitable projects and partnerships and manages several of our larger relationships including with the V&A and Imperial Health Charity.

She has a strong affinity with our initiatives to empower women having recently completed a Masters degree dissertation on the history of equal pay.

In addition to her work with the Parasol Foundation, Shelley provides strategic communications advice to several large and high-profile corporates.

Shelley was previously the Strategic Communications Director for an international membership organisation where she was part of the senior leadership team. She has also served as a non-executive board director and as a trustee for a defined benefit pension scheme.

Across her thirty-year career, Shelley has worked in multiple sectors including health, energy, indemnity, insurance, professional services, FMCG and music.