Russell Ashfield

Principal Consultant – Team Lead

Russell is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable land management professional with a wealth of practical experience across the UK. Skilled at building relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, he excels at working collaboratively to find solutions to complex issues.

As Principal Consultant and Team Lead in the Agriculture and Landscape business unit, Russell leads the development and delivery of a wide range of Green Finance feasibility and Landscape Transformation programmes. This includes helping clients identify and plan practical and innovative private finance solutions to the landscape challenges they face across a range of UK landscape types from uplands to lowlands, inland to coastal, and Cumbria to Kent.

Prior to 3Keel, Russell worked for the National Trust for 18 years in a number of roles including land management, nature conservation, livestock welfare and team leadership. Previously Russell worked as a Farm Conservation Adviser with FWAG, and the Peak District National Park Authority.