Jake Reynolds

Jake's background in global sustainability complements the legal services provided by Freshfields, marshalling insights and perspectives for the benefit of colleagues and clients.

Previously an executive director of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), he is author of Rewiring the Economy, a blueprint for economy-wide sustainability through policy, finance and business. He founded CISL's Centre for Sustainable Finance in 2014 to catalyse action in the investment, banking and insurance industries drawing on academic research and collaboration and is a contributor to the University’s Master’s degree in sustainability leadership.

Jake is a member of the Impact Advisory Board of Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) and has authored many practitioner-focused publications on corporate sustainability. He has previously been a senior advisor to three UK Government departments, a commissioner of the Business Commission to Tackle Inequalities, and chair of the Digital with Purpose performance board, starting his career in AI at the University of Oxford.