Advisory Board

Zaneta Sedilekova

Co-founder, 2023 Chair

Zaneta is a qualified lawyer specialised in climate and biodiversity liability. She is a founder of a sustainability risk consultancy firm Planet Law Lab dedicated to upskilling the entire legal profession in the UK on sustainability.

Ming Zee Tee

Co-founder, 2024 Chair

Ming Zee is an associate at A&O Shearman’s Environment, Climate and Regulatory Law Group. She advises on various ESG matters including green claims and greenwashing risk, corporate sustainability reporting, project financing environmental and social standards. She’s worked for The Chancery Lane Project and researched for the LSE Grantham School of Climate Change and the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law.

Matilda Graham

Co-founder

Matilda is a Dispute Resolution solicitor at Bates Wells, the first law firm in the UK to become a B Corp. Before her training contract, she worked with climate and biodiversity organisations including The Chancery Lane Project and Lawyers for Nature.

Margherita Cornaglia

Co-founder

Margherita is a barrister specialising in climate and environmental law and litigation. Margherita is instructed in a range of contentious and advisory work focusing on climate and environmental law, and her practice spans public law and private domestic and transnational environmental law.

Elnaz Cadogan

Co-founder

Elnaz is a London-based lawyer at Ashurst.

Isobel Conroy-Ryan

2023 Stewardship Committee

Isobel is an Associate in the Climate & Sustainability Risk Governance team of Australian law firm MinterEllison and secondee to The Chancery Lane Project.

Flora Curtis

2023-24 Stewardship Committee

Flora is a barrister practising in environmental, public and planning law at 39 Essex Chambers. She has experience acting in cases involving complex environmental matters, including high profile climate change litigation. She has undertaken a secondment to the Office for Environmental Protection.

Sarah Hill-Smith

2023-24 Stewardship Committee

Sarah is a lawyer in Clyde & Co’s climate liability and risk team, where she advises companies on risks and opportunities arising from climate change and the energy transition. She also works as a corporate/finance and climate change lawyer at the Commonwealth Climate Law Initiative. Sarah previously worked at The Chancery Lane Project and volunteers for Legal Response International. Sarah has attended COP26 and COP28 in this capacity. 

Harriet Hall

2024 Stewardship Committee, 2025 Co-Chair

Harriet is a Lawyer at the Government Legal Department, advising the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs on circular economy and environmental quality. Before, she was an Associate in the Real Estate Planning and Environment team at Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, where she trained. She has a passion for nature (see her knowledge session on biodiversity net gain, Dec 2024!) Prior to her career in law, Harriet studied Geography and worked for the British Antarctic Survey.

Emma Short

2024 Stewardship Committee, 2025 Co-Chair

Emma is an Associate in the Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure team at A&O Shearman. During her training, Emma worked with carbon markets, sustainability-linked financial products, renewable energy projects and ESG regulation. She is passionate about climate finance (see her knowledge session on this from April 2024!) and specialises in the financing of green projects, particularly involving hard-to-abate sectors.

Catriona Campbell

2024-25 Stewardship Committee

Catríona is an Associate in the Regulatory & Investigations team at Clyde & Co, as part of which she advises clients on climate risk, sanctions and cyber risk. She recently completed an LLM in Environmental Law and Policy at UCL, where she was involved in various environmental pro bono projects and worked as a Research Assistant to Dr Franziska Arnold Dwyer, researching (re)insurance and sustainability issues.

Yomna Elewa

2024-25 Stewardship Committee

Yomna is a dual-qualified lawyer (England and Wales and Egypt). She is a counsel at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with a background in renewable energy project finance and currently advising on a range of banking and investment transactions in the Western Balkans and the MENA region. 

Hadrien Espiard

2025 Stewardship Committee

Hadrien is an associate in Bird & Bird’s commercial energy team. His work focuses on cleantech and renewables, energy management, energy digitalisation and ESG. He also helps run the firm’s ESG Pulse blog and is a member of its ESG working group. Prior to Bird & Bird, Hadrien spent two consecutive summers working for the cleantech NGO AquaAction (formerly AquaHacking) organising hackathons.

Orla Heatley

2025 Stewardship Committee

Orla holds an LLB in Law and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin and a Master of Laws from New York University. She currently works providing research assistance to various legal professionals and projects. She has researched and advocated extensively in the arena of climate and environmental law, publishing and presenting proposals with the Climate Bar Association in Ireland and advocating for environmental rights with KCL’s Environmental Rights Recognition Project. 

Verity Thompson

2025 Stewardship Committee

Verity is an associate at Kennedy’s Law where her practice focuses on disputes in the maritime and energy sectors. She is also a member of Kennedy’s ESG Steering Group. Prior to joining Kennedy’s, Verity worked at another London-based law firm in their maritime team. Verity started her legal career at Canada’s Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund where she enforced the polluter pay principles. She has also work for Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada.