Sophie Marjanac

Sophie Marjanac is an internationally recognised expert in environmental law, climate change law and litigation, human rights and corporate management of climate risk. She is currently Director of Legal at Redwater Insights. She was at ClientEarth from 2015-2024, where she incubated the organisation's work on climate change litigation, leading its work to hold corporations to account for their environmental impacts. During her time at ClientEarth, she led the path-breaking human rights case Billy v Australia on behalf of Indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against Australia, several cases seeking to hold companies to account for greenwashing, and a world-first claim against the Board of Directors of Shell plc. She has practiced in private practice and worked in native title in the remote Torres Strait region. She has regularly commented and written in range of leading publications and forums. Sophie is an Australian-qualified lawyer (State of Victoria) and obtained a Bachelor of Law (first class honors) and Bachelor of International Studies (with distinction) from the University of NSW in 2009. She is also on the board of the investigative climate journalism organisation, DeSmog UK.

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