Andressa Lanchotti

Since 1999, I am a State Prosecutor for the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (MPMG). From December 2016 to December 2020, I coordinated the Support Center for the Environment of the Prosecutor’s Office of Minas Gerais (CAOMA). During that period, I have also coordinated the task-forces that were created by the MPMG to act on the reparation of the two largest mining disasters in Brazil’s history, the failures of Samarco's tailings dam in Mariana, in 2015, and of Vale's tailings dams in Brumadinho, in 2019.
From March 2018 to May 2021, I coordinated the Permanent Commission on Environment, Housing, Urban Planning and Cultural Heritage (COPEMA), of the Nacional Group for Human Rights (GNDH) of the National Council of State Prosecutors (CNPG).
I hold PhD in Fundamental Rights and Public Liberties from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (2013) and master's degrees in Environmental Engineering from the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil (2010) and in environmental law from the Limoges University, France (2008). Most recently I have conducted postdoctoral research at the Postdoctoral Program in Democracy and Human Rights of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (2018). I am current a Humphrey Fellow at Cornell University, New York, United States, and my field of study is Natural Resources, Environmental and Climate Change.
I am author and co-author of books and author of several articles on the subjects of environment, human rights and sustainable development.

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