Jer­ry White is an activist entre­pre­neur known for lead­ing high-impact cam­paigns, three of which led to inter­na­tion­al treaties: the Mine Ban Treaty; the U.N. Con­ven­tion on the Rights of Per­sons with Dis­abil­i­ties; and the Clus­ter Muni­tions Ban. White shares in the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize award­ed to the Inter­na­tion­al Cam­paign to Ban Land­mines. As co-founder of Land­mine Sur­vivors Net­work, he worked with Diana, Princess of Wales, to help thou­sands of war vic­tims find peer sup­port and job train­ing. White served as U.S. Deputy Assis­tant Sec­re­tary of State to launch the Bureau of Con­flict and Sta­bi­liza­tion Oper­a­tions, intro­duc­ing advanced deci­sion ana­lyt­ics to pre­dict the out­comes of com­plex nego­ti­a­tions. He stud­ied reli­gion at Brown and the­ol­o­gy at Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty, with hon­orary degrees from the Mount Sinai School of Med­i­cine, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts Boston, and Glas­gow Cale­do­nia Uni­ver­si­ty. White is a Pro­fes­sor of Prac­tice at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Virginia.