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IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast

IBA Legal Policy and Research Unit

The International Bar Association"s Legal Policy & Research Unit undertakes research, develops and implements innovative strategies, projects and initiatives that are relevant to business and the rule of law, the global legal profession and the broader global community. Their latest series features short interviews with inspiring IBA members, who share their thoughts and experiences about what it means to be a woman in the legal profession.

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7:44

ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Lauren Boccardi

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/11/28

Lauren Boccardi leads the legal team supporting The Nature Conservancy’s impact investment portfolio. Before joining the Conservancy, Lauren served at the US Agency for International Development (USAID), where she most recently served as the Deputy Assistant General Counsel for USAID’s Bureau for Food Security and for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance. Her work at USAID covered private sector engagement, impact investing, legislation and policy, and Middle East issues

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9:14

ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Mariana Herrero

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/10/30

Mariana Herrero is a leading Mexican environmental lawyer. She holds extensive expertise on wildlife protection, waste regulation and environmental law, integrating insights from projects, litigation and M&A. As the first female partner at her firm, she champions diversity, equity and inclusion, having led the firm’s DE&I Committee and co-founded Abogadas MX to promote women in legal leadership. Mariana is widely recognised by Latin Lawyer and other international publications. She spoke at

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8:55

ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Naa Atswei...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/10/15

Naa Atswei Koney is a sustainability and climate change specialist with Ernst & Young West Africa and is the Lead Manager for the Climate Change and Sustainability Services unit in Accra. Her team focuses on providing end-to-end ESG advisory services to corporate clients, from how to build resilience and meet their compliance obligations, to how they can unlock value through sustainable business practices. Prior to joining EY, Naa was in private practice and has significant experience in

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13:07

ESG Conference 2025: Paola Fonseca

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/09/26

Paola Fonseca is Senior Corporate Counsel at Sphera, a leading provider of integrated sustainability and operational risk management software, data and consulting services. Paola has extensive expertise in corporate governance, contracting, and ESG regulatory compliance throughout Ibero-America, and is currently completing a PhD at the UN University for Peace, where she examines how multinational business practices and global ESG standards foster impact investment regulation across the value chain

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7:02

ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Steven Richman

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/09/05

Steven Richman is Chair of the IBA Bar Issues Commission, and represents the Bar Issues Commission on the IBA AI Taskforce. Steven is also a member of Clark Hill PLC, based in Princeton and New York, and has extensive experience in national and international litigation across broad areas of commercial and business practice, as well as arbitration and appellate practice. Steven has written and spoken extensively on the areas of international law, business and human rights, contracts, litigation and

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14:19

Ambassador Willem Van de Voorde

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/08/12

Ambassador Willem Van de Voorde is a Belgian diplomat currently serving as Special Envoy for Climate and Environment at the Belgian Foreign Ministry. His distinguished career includes roles as Ambassador in Berlin and in Vienna, and to the European Union until November 2024, Secretary to the Queen, and Deputy Head of Mission in Berlin and Tokyo. He has also led the cabinet of two foreign ministers and coordinated the Belgian EU Presidency. His diplomatic expertise spans multilateral and bilateral

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5:49

ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Pascal Durand

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/08/12

Pascal Durand is a lawyer and former Elected Member of the European Parliament. Mon Durand co-founded the French Europe Ecologie les Verts in 2008, and was elected to the European Parliament under the green banner in 2014, where he worked on many subjects including the transparency of public life, addressing tax evasion and trade secrets, and protection of whistle-blowers. Mon Durand was re-elected to the European Parliament for a second term from May 2019 to July 2024, and during this term, served

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10:26

ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Damilola S...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/08/12

Professor Damilola S Olawuyi is an international lawyer, professor, and policy adviser specialising in business and human rights, energy, natural resources, and environmental law. He serves as UNESCO Chairholder on Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar and is Director of the OGEES Institute in Nigeria. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (KC) and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he has advised on major energy and infrastructure projects

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16:36

Inspirational Legal Women: a conversation with Carli...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/07/03

Carli Schickerling is a Namibian lawyer and Officer of the IBA LGBTQI+ Law Committee, with a 16-year career spanning a wide range of practice areas including family law, general civil litigation, immigration and human rights. She has consistently used her legal expertise to champion the rights of minorities and marginalized groups, foster a culture of diversity and inclusion and advocate for equality under the law and in society more broadly. A member of the Law Society of Namibia, she also served

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20:01

Inspirational Legal Women: A conversation with Adeola...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/06/18

Adeola Sunmola is a partner at Udo Udoma and Belo-Osagie in Nigeria, where she leads teams specialising in project development and project finance in the power sector. Her expertise encompasses a diverse range of legal subjects, notably cross-border lending, syndicated lending, non-interest finance, debt restructuring, and financing for intricate power, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects in Nigeria. She was named as one of the IFLR1000 Women Leaders for 2022, and maintains a consistent

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21:08

S2 Ep8: Inspirational legal women: a conversation...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/06/03

Akila Agrawal is a distinguished corporate lawyer based in New Delhi with over 23 years of experience in M&A, and corporate restructuring. She is a Senior Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and set up the first creche at a law firm in India over 20 years ago when her first child was born. Akila has been consistently recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific for her expertise in Corporate and M&A law. Under her pseudonym, Vathi Agrawal, she authored the novel Marriages Not

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19:38

S2 Ep7: Inspirational legal women: a conversation...

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2025/05/20

Imbi Jürgen is president of the Estonian Bar Association (since 2022) and now 3rd Vice-President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Since qualifying in 1996 she has worked at several highly esteemed commercial law firms, specialising in energy, environmental, and contract law. She is now working as counsel in pan-Baltic law firm TGS Baltic.

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20:56

S2 Ep6: Inspirational legal women: a conversation...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/05/06

Founding partner of Nascimento e Mourão Advogados in São Paulo, Alessandra is an inspiring mentor to women and young lawyers. She is a past Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of the IBA and a member of the SPPI Council. Alessandra created and coordinates the ‘Negotiation Techniques for Lawyers’ course at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School and is a guest lecturer at Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon. She holds a law degree and a postgraduate degree from the University of São Paulo,

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17:26

S2 Ep5: Inspirational legal women: a conversation...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/04/14

The Hon Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou is a judicial officer of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, which is the highest court in the state. Prior to her Honour’s appointment to the Bench in 2015, she worked as an employment and discrimination lawyer and co-founded female-led, collaborative Australian law firm Justitia in 2005, where she was a managing partner. Associate Justice Ierodiaconou has recently been appointed as a Commissioner of the IBA’s Professional Wellbeing

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12:44

S2 Ep4: Inspirational Legal Women: a conversation...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/04/03

Lucie Allen has spent most of her career working with the legal profession, previously working as Vice President for the Global Large Law segment at Thomson Reuters. Now the Managing Director of BARBRI International, a global legal education company specialising in bar exam preparation and legal training, she works with the IBA to design specialist courses. Recognised for her collaborative approach and commitment to diversity and inclusion, she is also a director of She Breaks the Law and founder of

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S2 Ep3: Inspirational legal women: Faiza Alleg Dolivet

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/03/19

Listen to international lawyer and mediator Faiza Alleg Dolivet sharing insights into her varied career, having lived and worked in many countries from Australia to the Congo, Tahiti to Switzerland. She has worked as an in-house legal director for a range of major companies, including Apple, Saipem and Boart Longyear. Now based with her family in France, her expertise covers many sectors and her IBA engagement includes the Anti-Corruption, Mediation, Litigation and Business and Human Rights

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16:14

S2 Ep2: Inspirational legal women: Carola van den...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/03/07

Carola van den Bruinhorst is a Dutch lawyer with over 20 years’ experience at Loyens & Loeff, and consultant in transformation processes and leadership development. Carola founded the firm's Hong Kong office and has also lived abroad in New York and Milan. Passionate about diversity, she co-founded the IBA’s Diversity & Inclusion Council and has held leadership roles in IBA. She is currently pursuing an Executive Master at INSEAD (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires).

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18:44

S2 Ep1: Inspirational legal women: a conversation...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2025/03/03

An insightful discussion with IBA Secretary General, Deborah Enix-Ross, US lawyer at Debevoise and Plimpton LLP based at their New York office for over 20 years. She co-founded the Women's Interest Network within the American Bar Association's International Law Section, advocating for women's legal issues, something she has continued to do within the IBA. Deborah was President of the American Bar Association from 2022-2023 and named on the Forbes List of America’s top 200 lawyers in 2024.

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34:01

10: Sustainable Law in Action: ESG Conference...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2024/05/28

In this special edition of the Sustainable Law in Action podcast, Sara Carnegie, IBA Legal Projects Director, and barrister Melissa Murphy KC, speak with expert panellists from the IBA’s 2024 ESG Conference about the critical role of lawyers in the ESG space, and the challenges and opportunities facing businesses and law firms alike in this evolving and increasingly politicised environment.

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26:40

9: Sustainable Law in Action: A conversation with...

IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast ·

2023/05/30

In this episode, Beatriz Martínez, IBA LPRU Project Lawyer, speaks with Marlen Estévez, partner at the Spanish law firm RocaJunyent, about the ‘50:50 by 2030’ gender project, her thoughts and advice on how to navigate a career in law and the need for connecting female lawyers within the different sectors of the legal profession. Marlen combines her role as a lawyer with the presidency of Women in a Legal World, a non-profit organisation focused on promoting female talent in the legal sector.

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