Natalie (Nat) Ashworth is the legal and policy director at Inclusive Development International. Nat has more than two decades of experience in human rights and environmental campaigning, including 17 years with Global Witness. At Global Witness, she worked on investigations and advocacy to expose the links between natural resource extraction, human rights abuses, conflict and corruption in Southeast Asia, Papua New Guinea, West Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Latin America. She has researched and written reports on issues ranging from palm oil and rubber to mining and conflict timber in Liberia, and she has supported civil and criminal legal actions to hold individuals, companies and governments accountable for human rights abuses and environmental destruction. As a senior leader at Global Witness, Nat also oversaw the Environmental Defenders campaign exposing the number of people who are killed globally defending the environment. After leaving Global Witness, Nat served as director of an anti-slavery charity raising awareness of modern slavery in the United Kingdom, and supported another charity with an undercover investigation into logging in Russia and its links to major brands in Europe. She later joined Greenpeace UK as deputy program director, supporting campaigns on plastics, oceans, forests and climate justice. Nat holds a bachelor’s degree in law and politics from Nottingham University and a master’s degree in violence, conflict and development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, China and Thailand.
