Jeremy Asher

Career He joined Washington D.C.-based Strategic Planning Associates (later Mercer Management Consulting, ultimately merged into Oliver Wyman in 2007) as a consultant while still at Harvard, in 1980, and rose to become a manager before leaving in 1984. He then joined multinational commodity trader Marc Rich + Co AG (today Glencore), and by the time of his departure in 1989 had become global co-head of Global Oil Products there. He remained on the supervisory board at Beta Raffineriegesellschaft Wilhelmshaven mbH, the firm established to run the plant, until 1997. and managed the two firms' integration. He combined this role with being chief executive until 2017. Today, Asher is chairman at Agile and Tower Resources plc, which holds oil and gas licenses in Cameroon, Namibia and South Africa, and senior independent director at Block Energy plc, which produces oil and gas in the Republic of Georgia. Between 1998 and 2018 he also served as a member of London Business School's global advisory council and the Engineering Advisory Board of Imperial Innovations plc, Imperial College London's commercial arm, which is listed on the AIM.

Personal life Asher's younger brother, Japhet, has been active as a film and television producer since the early 1980s.