Angeli Patel is the Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business. Previously, Angeli was an attorney in the Sustainability & ESG Advisory Practice at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in San Francisco, where she advised clients on the governance of climate and social risks; a Lecturer at Berkeley Law; and a corporate associate at Jones Day and held an advisory role at the UN Global Compact Network Australia. Angeli graduated from UC Berkeley, School of Law in 2020. While there, Angeli was the co-President of Women in Tech Law and an editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. Prior to her legal career, Angeli served at the White House Office of Management and Budget under the Obama Administration and served as a policy advisor at the Ministry of Finance in the Government of Chile. In addition to her career in law and government, Angeli enjoys creating digital art and launched her own puzzle company for women of color in 2021. In her free time, Angeli enjoys exercise, fiction reading, dance, travel and movies.
Education
B.S. International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology (2014)
J.D., University of California, Berkeley- School of Law (2020)