Stephen Ronald Jakobi OBE[1] (born 1935) is an English writer and human rights lawyer who is a former chief executive of Fair Trials Abroad (now Fair Trials), which he founded in 1992.
When his parents divorced in 1945, he went to live with his father and was sent to boarding school at Malvern College.
He worked in industry before qualifying as a solicitor and was in private practice as a criminal lawyer before founding Fair Trials Abroad.
[2][5][6] He and his wife Sally, a retired Jungian analyst, married in 1964[7] and live in Ham[8] in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
[9] They have a son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Francesca,[10] who is a published novelist[7] and a journalist with the Financial Times.