Law, Environment and Development Centre

Marta Simonetti

Key information

Roles
Law, Environment and Development Centre Graduate Student Member
Qualifications
MSc Comparative Politics; MA Environmental Law and Sustainable Development; BA Hond Modern Languages
Email address
685316@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Realising environmental rights in national and sub-national contexts. Global to local perspective, with focus on Indonesia.

Biography

Marta Simonetti is an experienced green finance and governance expert based in UK.

She worked in the City of London, initially in marketing and then in development and transition banking for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Marta is a certified professional coach (CPC), with a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); a Diploma in Management (Birkbeck, University of London); Climate Change Science and Policy specialization (Imperial College); Climate and Sustainability Leadership (Cambridge University).

She recently finished her Senior Management Programme at the Cambridge Judge Business School and an MA in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at SOAS

Research interests

As a senior climate governance and climate finance expert (in her current work), Marta has developed a keen interest in broadening her understanding of legal interventions to tackle climate change and environmental degradation.

She has researched and written on customary law (adat) in Indonesia, the realisation of substantive and procedural environmental rights in fragile contexts (Iraq) and measures to support governments in aligning environmental policies and budgets.

Marta’s research areas include: environmental rights; legal plurality; environmental customary law; environmental and climate governance; Indonesia's legal ethnography; and environmental rights in fragile and divided contexts.