Weslynne Ashton
Associate Research Scientist, Lecturer and Director of the Program on Industrial Ecology in Developing CountriesDegrees
Ph.D. (Yale 2008)
M.Sc. Environmental Science (Yale 2003)
B.Sc. Environmental Engineering (MIT 1999)
About
Weslynne Ashton is the program director for “Industrial Ecology in Developing Countries” at the Center for Industrial Ecology. She previously managed Yale’s “Puerto Rico: an Island of Sustainability” research project from 2002-2008. She has provided consulting expertise on green business strategies to the Inter-American Development Bank, United Technologies Corporation and the Kohala Center in Hawai’i. Prior to Yale, she worked as an environmental engineer at Gradient Corporation in Massachusetts, modeling contaminant transport and devising remediation strategies in soil and groundwater. She also led Trinidad and Tobago based Technology Experts Caribbean Holdings (an information technology services start-up firm), through its first year of incorporation. She holds Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Environmental Science from Yale, and a Bachelor’s in Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
