Assunção Cristas

Assunção Cristas

Associate Professor Nova University,Portugal

Assunção Cristas, PhD, is associate professor at Nova School of Law where, namely, coordinates the Master’s Degree in Law and Economics of the Sea – Ocean Governance (ranked 1st place in the world by Eduniversal), lecturing Ocean Policies. Assunção Cristas is partner at VdA, a leading Portuguese based law firm, responsible for the Environment and Climate Change Practice Area and the ESG Integrated Services Platform. For ten years, Assunção was fully dedicated to politics: served as Minister of the Portuguese Government (2011-2015), with Agriculture, Ocean, Environment and Spatial Planning, Member of Parliament, Council Women in Lisbon, President of her party.