About Assunção Cristas

Assunção Cristas is a partner at VdA, responsible for the ESG integrated services platform, and co-head of the environment and climate change practice area. She is also co-ordinator of the VdA Academia ESG Executive Program. Assunção has a PhD and is a professor at Nova School of Law where she lectures on Law and Sustainability at the undergraduate level and co-ordinates the world-renowned Master’s in Law and the Economics of the Sea – Ocean Governance. For ten years, Assunção was dedicated to politics, serving as a minister of the Portuguese government, with the environment in her portfolio; as a member of parliament; and as a councillor and party leader.