Jamie Walls worked as an economist for some years before joining Shell Australia and moving into external relations. He has since worked in Australia, the UK, China and the USA. His experience ranges across issues management, government relations, community relations and corporate communications. In recent years his focus has included China, where he was External Affairs Manager; Russia where he worked on Shell’s Sakhalin project; and the Americas where he was Group Issues Adviser and later supported Shell’s Alaska exploration venture. Based in Washington from 2008, he worked on international government relations focused on Africa, relations with a number of non-government stakeholders in the US, and coordination of Shell’s approach to stakeholder relationships for a group of oil and gas development projects in Canada, Alaska and the US Rockies. In November 2009, he became Vice President, Communications for Shell in the UK. |
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