Prof. Alessandra Lehmen, Ph.D. (UFRGS), LL.M. (Stanford), MBA (FGV), is a lawyer qualified in New York and Brazil, as well as an author and international speaker. She is the President of the Brazilian Bar Environmental Law Commission, Rio Grande do Sul State Chapter, a member of the São Paulo and Federal Bar Climate Change Commissions, and serves as Board Member of federal, state, and city climate and environmental councils in Brazil.

She is a Law Professor, teaching Climate Law, ESG, and Environmental Governance in Ph.D. and LL.M. programs at the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS), the Environmental Law Specialization Program at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and the Public Prosecution Service Foundation (FMP). She is a Post-Doctoral Laureate at the Make Our Planet Great Again Program, of the Presidency of France/CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université.

Prof. Lehmen serves as Co-Chair of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI), as Country Rapporteur for Brazil at the Climate Change Legal Initiative (C2LI) – Strathclyde University/University of Geneva/National University of Singapore, and as Head of the ESG Committee of the 30% Club Brazil Chapter.

She is a member of B20/G20, the BRICS Business Council, the CISDL High Climate Ambition Commitments to Sustainability in Regional Trade and Investment Treaties Community of Practice, the IUCN World Environmental Law Commission, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) Corporate Climate Legal Tactics Brazil Expert Group, and the Centre International de Droit Comparé de l’environnement (CIDCE), among other organizations worldwide.

Prof. Lehmen has received several prizes and distinctions: she was a Stanford Woods Institute Rising Environmental Leaders Fellow and a Santander/LSE W50 Scholar; she was also a recipient of the Stanford Olaus and Adolph Murie Award for Best Work in Environmental Law and of the Lincoln Institute/Harvard Forest Conservation Catalysts Award. She is an admissions volunteer at Stanford Law School, where she served as Board Member of the Stanford International Law Society and was an alto singer at the Stanford Symphonic Chorus.