Angela Francis

Director of Policy Solutions, WWF UK

Angela is Director of Policy Solutions at WWF-UK where she leads the teams working on climate, finance, economics, production, and consumption policy. She started as an accountant in the energy industry before moving into economics and policy development where she has been for the last 20 years.

She led on economics and strategy for the East of England Development Agency and worked on productivity, innovation, and low carbon growth in the UK and Europe for SQW. In 2012, she took those skills to the Caribbean where she was Regional Economist and Climate Attaché for the FCO.

Returning to the UK she found her home in environmental advocacy. She was Chief Economist for Green Alliance, where she led on industrial strategy, tech and the economic case for a low carbon and circular economy and then Chief Advisor, Economics and Economic Development at WWF, providing economic advice across the climate, food and nature programs as well as leading on green recovery, just transition and trade policy for sustainable agriculture.

She was a member of UCL’s Green Innovation Policy Commission and IPPR’s Environmental Justice Commission and currently sits on the CCC Economic Advisory Group for Climate Adaptation and Resilience. Her TEDtalk on the green economy has over 1.7million views.