Dr. Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public International and European Law and the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). She is affiliated with the Sustainable Global Economic Law Project (SGEL) project, with a focus on the contribution of international organizations and the role of inter-State inequalities in creating sustainable global economic law. Her teaching includes Master’s courses on general international law and international trade law.

Johanna specializes in international law and development (international development law), international trade law, and the legal aspects of international financial institutions. Her research and publications concentrate on sustainability, development, and global governance issues arising from the intersections of international economic law, international environmental law, and international human rights law. She is currently preparing to publish her doctoral dissertation — awarded by Yale Law School, the Ambrose Gherini Prize for best paper in international law — entitled ‘International Financial Institutions and International Sustainable Development Law: The Role of Safeguard Systems’. The project scrutinized the environmental and social frameworks of the World Bank and other multilateral development banks and their independent accountability mechanisms, and explained the ways that international organizations and non-State actors are becoming participants in the international lawmaking process relating to sustainable development.

One of Johanna’s forthcoming works is a chapter that examines the public international law dimensions of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, specifically Goal 10 on reducing inequalities within and among States. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, Johanna was a postdoctoral fellow in the Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?’, where she studied the environmental and social implications of the transnational legal order governing economic cooperation activities and infrastructure investments within the Belt and Road Initiative. She has taught international trade law (LL.M. program) and public international law at the University of the Philippines, where she also served as supervising legal officer at its research arm, the Institute of International Legal Studies. Johanna holds  J.S.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law) and LL.M. (Master of Laws) degrees from Yale University, New Haven, United States, as well as J.D. (Juris Doctor) and B.Sc. (Economics) from the University of the Philippines.