John Wood

Biography

John Wood joined Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills LLP), the city and international law firm, in 1972 and was a partner from 1982 to 2007. From 2008 to 2014 he was a legal board member of the Charity Commission for England and Wales and its interim chair in 2012. He continued as a board consultant with the Charity Commission from 2014 to 2017. He was appointed as a member of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives in 2018.