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 President of the Brazilian Bar Environmental Law Commission, Rio Grande do Sul State Chapter, Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) Co-chair for Private, Finance, and Trade Law, and Head of the 30% Club Brazil ESG Committee. She is a Law Professor, teaching Climate Law in Ph.D., LL.M. (UCS), and specialization (UFRGS) programs in Brazil. She leads the research group Climate Law: Foundations and Transversality (DCLIMA) with the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

Prof. Lehmen is a Post-Doctoral Laureate at the Make Our Planet Great Again Program, of the Presidency of France/CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université, and she holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, an LL.M. in Environmental Law and Policy from Stanford University, and an MBA from FundacaoGetulio Vargas, Brazil. She holds certificates in ESG investing from the CFA Institute, in organizational leadership from the London School of Economics and Political Science, in corporate governance from the Wharton School, and in negotiation from Harvard Law School.

She serves as Board Member of federal, State and City climate and environmental councils in Brazil, and sits on the Advisory Board of the water utility company of Porto Alegre (DMAE). She is a member of the gubernatorial Scientific Committee for Climate Adaptation and Resilience of the Rio Grande do Sul State, and of the Brazilian Ministry of Finance Cap-and-trade Methodology Working Group.

Alessandra is a member of the CISDL Sustainable Trade and Investment Law Initiative (STILI), of the CISDL High Climate Ambition Commitments to Sustainability in Regional Trade and Investment Treaties Community of Practice, of the IUCN World Environmental Law Commission and Climate Change Law Specialist Group, the Centre International de Droit Comparé de l’Environnement – CIDCE, of B20/G20 Brazil, and of the BRICS Sustainable Development Network, among other organizations worldwide. She is Brazil Rapporteur at the Climate Change Litigation Initiative/C2LI – Strathclyde University/University of Geneva/National University of Singapore, and Brazil Rapporteur for Climate Finance Litigation at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law – BIICL. Prof. Lehmen is an invited Editor at Revista Latinoamericana de EstudiosAmbientales, in Bolivia, and a founding member of the Académie franco-latino-américaine de bioéthique et d’éthique des sciences of the Commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO.

Prof. Lehmen has received several prizes and distinctions: she was a Stanford Woods Institute Rising Environmental Leaders Fellow, a Santander/LSE W50 Scholar, a recipient of the Stanford Olaus and Adolph Murie Award for Best Work in Environmental Law and a recipient of the Lincoln Institute/Harvard Forest Conservation Catalysts Award. She is Alumni Admissions Ambassador 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.