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. She also co-ordinates the VdA Academia ESG Executive Programme. Assunção has a PhD and is a professor at Nova School of Law where she co-ordinates the Master’s in Law and the Economics of the Sea – Ocean Governance. She previously served in the Portuguese government, as an MP with the environment in her portfolio; and as a councillor and party leader. She actively participated in COP29 and COP30, and also at the NY Climate Week and Sustainable Development Impact Meetings in September 2024, in parallel with the UN General Assembly.