Alice Garton

Alice Garton is Director of Global Legal Strategy at the Foundation for International Law and the Environment (FILE). FILE seeks to bring transformative legal strategies to scale in order to combat climate and ecological emergencies. Alice was previously Head of Climate at Europe’s leading environmental law charity, ClientEarth, and has substantial experience using legal advocacy, advice, and litigation to accelerate government policies and corporate investment strategies that are consistent with a zero-emissions future. Prior to joining the charitable sector, Alice honed her legal skills working for 15 years as a lawyer in large defense law firms acting for company directors in commercial litigation and insolvency disputes, and then as Senior Legal Counsel at Brookfield in London. Alice graduated with first-class honors in both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. She has a double degree in Law and Politics from Charles Darwin University (in Australia) and a master of Environmental Law and Policy from University College London.