Full Name
Ruth Perry
Job Title
Head of Regulatory Affairs
Bio
Dr. Ruth Perry is the Head of Regulatory Affairs for Shell Renewables and Energy Solutions Offshore Power Americas. In this role, she is responsible for leading and executing the permitting and regulatory advocacy and strategy for Shell’s offshore wind portfolio in the Americas. Prior to this role, she served as a Marine Scientist and Regulatory Policy Specialist responsible for offshore marine environmental policy for Shell Exploration and Production Americas. In both capacities, Dr. Perry integrates marine science and ocean technology into regulatory policy advocacy and decision-making in the areas of marine sound, marine spatial planning, ocean observing, and marine mammal and life science. She is responsible for helping Shell to develop public-private science collaborations, such as real-time monitoring programs, to improve industry’s knowledge of the offshore marine environment and is helping to lead similar industry-wide collaborations and establish research partnerships between offshore wind, governments, and ocean users, including the NGO community and fishing industry.
Dr. Perry represents the energy sector as a member of NOAA Advisory Committees and Councils, including the IOOS Federal Advisory Committee, the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, and the NOAA Science Advisory Board. She also proudly serves on the National Academies Ocean Studies Board and as a representative to the U.S. National Committee for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. She has also recently been recognized as A Word About Wind’s 2022 Top 100 North American Power leaders in offshore wind.
Dr. Perry has over 15 years of ocean technology research and system implementation and ocean policy experience. She earned a doctorate in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 2013, joined Shell in 2014 and is based in Houston.
Company
Shell Renewables and Energy Solutions
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