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Aoife O'Leary

Aoife O'Leary

Director - International Climate

Work

Areas of expertise: 

International transport focused on aviation and shipping and greening agriculture policies

Background:

Aoife (pronounced ee-fa) is a lawyer with substantial environmental and economic experience. After qualifying as a lawyer in Ireland, she moved into the environmental sector. She worked with and advised various NGOs on the environmental impacts of international shipping and aviation, EU environmental governance, and UK community energy. After working in the legal and environmental sectors for a number of years she decided to gain economic expertise to bring an additional element to her work and has since ensured economic incentives form part of the policy solutions she advocates. She is a board member of Rethinking Economics (a charity campaigning to reform the economics curriculum in the UK) and Economy (a charity working to make economics more understandable).

Education

Law Degree, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, first class honours
Masters in Law, Columbia Law School, New York, James Kent Scholar
Graduate Diploma in Economics, Birkbeck University, London, UK, Distinction

Publications

‘Aviation’ and ‘Shipping’ in Dernbach & Gerrard eds., Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States. Environmental Law Institute, forthcoming 2018.

  • A view of the prosperous future from the deck of a zero emissions ship
  • A Wave of Momentum is Building
  • Could the UK put the wind in the sails of international shipping’s climate strategy?
  • A Tale of Two ‘Cities’

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