Ash Wallington

Ash Wallington is the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford School of Engineering. She focuses on blending academic frameworks with real-world innovation and management practices to build effective and innovative work and learning environments.

Ash's perspective is shaped by a diverse career that began outside of academia. Starting as a newsroom journalist and producer, she held roles spanning the not-for-profit arts, development, and digital transformation. Across these sectors, a focus on people, complex problem-solving, and futures thinking has been the common thread and remains at the core of her practice today.

This unique background informs her work building and scaling innovation programs within the globe's leading ecosystems. Before joining Stanford, she was the director of innovation and entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, where her work on innovative programming earned multiple accolades, including the 2024 Danish Society for Education and Business (DSEB) Award. Prior to this, she was director of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Sydney, where she led the transformation of the startup program INCUBATE into an internationally recognized, award-winning accelerator.

Ash frequently speaks at conferences around the world, sharing insights on the topic of entrepreneurship in higher education. Her teaching portfolio is also distinctly international, having taught the “Lean Design” capstone for the University of Sydney MBA, entrepreneurship courses at Copenhagen Business School, and intercultural entrepreneurship for a joint program in Suzhou, China.

Ash holds an MBA and a graduate certificate in Higher Education (with Deans Citations) from the University of Sydney, and a bachelor of arts from the University of New South Wales.