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Meet the speaker...Fleur Knowsley

Meet the speaker...Fleur Knowsley

By Website Administrator , | May 17, 2021 at 10:22 AM

Fleur Knowsley Headshot 3Fleur Knowsley is currently Director and Acting General Counsel for Google Fiber (a high speed broadband provider in the USA) and Webpass (a subsidiary focused on wireless delivery of broadband). 

Fleur will talk about Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Industry including how to make a difference, what works and most importantly what doesn’t work. 

Before heading to Google, she worked in New York for the premium television network HBO and at the prestigious law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore working on everything from major Mergers & Acquisitions through to insider trading investigations.

Fleur is involved in numerous diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the Legal Industry, including for the other Bet legal community within Alphabet; signing onto the Call to Action Letter signed by 240 GCs/CLOs promoting diversity; through the Diversity Lab and has recently been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Apollo Leadership Institute based out of London. Originally hailing from New Zealand where Fleur graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with Law and Economics degrees, she has also established the Fleur Knowsley Law Scholarship to provide financial support to New Zealand’s brightest young law students experiencing disadvantage.

Fleur will be speaking on Day 2 of the conference, for more information and to register click here