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.

Katie-Scarlett Wetherall

2023 Stewardship Committee

Katie is a lawyer within the Accountable Corporations team at ClientEarth, a legal NGO which uses the law to bring about systemic change that protects the Earth for – and with – its inhabitants. Prior to joining ClientEarth, Katie worked as a disputes lawyer at a global law firm headquartered in London. 

Sarah Hill-Smith

2024 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. 

Flora Curtis

2024 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.