Name
Jake White
Job Title
Head of Legal (Advocacy & Campaigns)
Company
WWF-UK
Speaker Bio
Jake White trained at a regional commercial law firm and then moved into the City to practise intellectual property. However that didn’t suit hence he joined government where he had 10 very stimulating years in the Government Legal Services advising on areas as varied as outer space, State aid and nuclear energy. Jake left government to join the third sector in 2012 where he worked first with Friends of the Earth and most recently at WWF where he is head of legal for advocacy and campaigns. He has a particular interest in equality and human rights and has worked with NGOs in the Middle East and Britain’s equality and human rights regulator.