Alessandra Lehmen 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 Brazilian Bar Federal Climate Change Commission, and serves as Board Member of State and City climate and environmental councils in Brazil. Alessandra is a Law Professor, teaching ESG and Climate Law in Ph.D. and LL.M. programs.

Dr. 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 Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil. She holds Certificates in ESG from the CFA Institute, in organizational leadership from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and in negotiation from Harvard Law School.

Alessandra is a member of the CISDL High Climate Ambition Commitments to Sustainability in Regional Trade and Investment Treaties Community of Practice, a member of the IUCN World Environmental Law Commission and Climate Change Law Specialist Group, Country Rapporteur for Brazil at the Climate Change Litigation Initiative/C2LI – Strathclyde University/University of Geneva/National University of Singapore, a member of the Global Perspectives on Corporate Climate Legal Tactics – Brazil Expert Group, British Institute of International and Comparative Law – BIICL, a member of the Influence Committee of the 30% Club, and a member of the Centre International de Droit Comparé de l’Environnement – CIDCE, among other organizations worldwide.

Dr. 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.