Andrew Hood

Associate Fellow, International Law Programme, Chatham House

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Biography

Andrew Hood is associate fellow of the International Law Programme at Chatham House.

He is a partner at Fieldfisher LLP. He specializes in advising governments, regulators and industry on sanctions, trade and public international law. 


Prior to joining Fieldfisher, Andrew spent over 13 years as a lawyer and negotiator for the UK government, including as a lawyer at the Foreign Office; the UK’s sanctions negotiator in Brussels; the head of international and EU law at the Attorney General’s Office; and as the first General Counsel in 10 Downing Street, advising the UK Prime Minister (David Cameron) and the Number 10 Policy Unit on the developments and application of a broad range of domestic, international and national security policies. 

Andrew has been invited to lecture on these topics at Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He is a trustee for Alliance for Lawyers at Risk (supporting human rights defenders around the world), the Public Law Project (supporting access to justice and fair government decision-making) and FareShare (a leading UK charity tackling food waste and hunger).