IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit podcast

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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Berit Reiss-Andersen 22.07.2026 23dk

  Berit Reiss-Andersen is a Norwegian lawyer and author with a legal career spanning more than four decades. She began her career as a prosecutor with the Oslo Police before establishing her own legal practice and later joining DLA Piper. Berit has also held major leadership roles within the profession, including serving as President of the Norwegian Bar Association and as State Secretary to the Norwegian Minister of Justice. Internationally, she is widely known for her work with the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the body responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize, where she served for 12 years, including as chair from 2017 to 2023, and as a member of the board of the Nobel Foundation until 2025. 
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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Geraldine Clarke 24.06.2026 20dk

  Geraldine Clarke is a partner at Gleeson McGrath Baldwin and former President of the Law Society of Ireland. Since she began practising in 1978, Geraldine has witnessed and shaped profound change in the Irish legal profession. She is one of the few solicitors in Ireland who can refer to herself as senior counsel, as the government has recognised her special expertise in specific areas of law. Geraldine has been a member of the IBA for many years and has held several different positions of responsibility; she is a past Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee and is a member of the Constitution and Governance Committee. 
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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Lise Lotte Hjerrild 13.05.2026 25dk

  Lise Lotte Hjerrild is a leading Danish M&A and corporate governance lawyer. As senior partner at HortenDahl in Denmark, she has led more than 150 major corporate and public M&A transactions across sectors including energy, life sciences and healthcare. Alongside her commercial practice, Lise Lotte serves on the IBA Management Board and Women Lawyers' Committee Advisory Board, where she has become a prominent advocate for advancing women in the profession. 
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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Pascale Lagesse 10.04.2026 22dk

  Pascale Lagesse is a partner and founder of Bredin Prat’s employment law practice, as well as being the current Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Legal Practice Division and a member of the IBA Management Board. She has been recognised as one of the leading employment law lawyers in France, as well as being one of the top 40 of the CAC 40 lawyers, which refers to expert business lawyers advising the largest companies on the French stock market. In addition to her legal practice work, Pascale is the course director for labour law studies at the Paris Bar School and a member of the research commission at Paris 2 Pantheon Assas University.
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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Fiona McLeod AO KC 09.03.2026 17dk

  Fiona McLeod is a senior counsel with more than 30 years’ experience practising across Australia in commercial and public law, including doing considerable work on class actions and royal commissions. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for distinguished service to the law and to the legal profession at the national and international level, and to women lawyers. She is presently a senior officer of the IBA, notably within the Bar Issues Commission, and has also been on the advisory panel for the Phase Two part of the Raising the Bar: Women in Law initiative.
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  ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Lauren Boccardi 28.11.2025 7dk

  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. Prior to USAID, Lauren worked on a wide range of corporate transactions as a corporate lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton, focusing in particular on energy and environmental work. 
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  ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Mariana Herrero 30.10.2025 9dk

  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 the IBA ESG Conference session ‘ESG: The Brussels Effect at a Crossroads’, focusing on EU directives’ impact in Latin America.
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  ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Naa Atswei Koney 15.10.2025 8dk

  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 litigation and dispute resolution, employment and environmental work. Finally, in addition to her degree in law, Naa also holds one in zoology and a master’s in environmental science from the University of Ghana.
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  ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Paola Fonseca 26.09.2025 13dk

  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. Her research also addresses how EU regulations including the EU CSDDD foster 'mandatory self-regulation' in the Global South through supply chain pressures. Paola believes that the law is not merely a framework for accountability, but a powerful enabler of the impact economy.
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  ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Steven Richman 05.09.2025 7dk

  Steven Richman on AI, ESG and human rights
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  Ambassador Willem Van de Voorde 12.08.2025 14dk

  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 arenas, and his work reflects Belgium’s leadership in climate diplomacy and EU governance.
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  ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Pascal Durand 12.08.2025 5dk

  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 as rapporteur on the revision of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
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  ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Damilola S Olawuyi 12.08.2025 10dk

  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 globally. He sits on the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and chairs the IBA SEERIL Academic Advisory Group. His award-winning book Environmental Law in Arab States earned recognition from ASIL in 2023.
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  Inspirational Legal Women: a conversation with Carli Schickerling 03.07.2025 16dk

  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 as the Chairperson of its Human Rights Committee and was a member on both the Ethics and Investigations Committee, and the Child, Gender and Family Law Committee.
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  Inspirational Legal Women: A conversation with Adeola Sunmola 18.06.2025 20dk

  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 status as a ‘Highly Regarded’ Lawyer according to IFLR1000.
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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Akila Agrawal 03.06.2025 21dk

  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 Made in Heaven, a witty and poignant portrayal of women and South Delhi life.
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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Imbi Jürgen 20.05.2025 19dk

  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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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Alessandra Nascimento Silva e Figueiredo Mourão 06.05.2025 20dk

  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, and is a negotiation specialist trained at Harvard Law School.
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  Inspirational legal women: a conversation with Associate Justice Mary-Jane Ierodiaconou 14.04.2025 17dk

  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 Commission. 
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  Inspirational Legal Women: a conversation with Lucie Allen 03.04.2025 12dk

  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 #Menopause Matters.