MARIANA ABREU

PARTNER, HEAD OF ESG & HUMAN RIGHTS

LONDON

SPECIALISES IN:

ESG & Human Rights
Political Risk
Integrity Due Diligence

REGIONAL EXPERTISE:

Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

Global Witness, 2018-2020
Amnesty International, 2015-2017
Mattos Filho Advogados, 2012-2014

EDUCATION:

Sciences Po Paris
PUC - São Paulo

QUALIFICATIONS:

Admitted to practice law in Brazil

LANGUAGES:

Portuguese
French

Mariana is a qualified lawyer and leads Wallbrook’s global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and human rights practice. She helps a wide range of clients integrate anti-corruption and ESG diligence workflows, manage supply chain tracing and human rights impact assessments as well support clients on disputes and investigations with a significant ESG component.

Mariana also supports clients on anti-corruption due diligence and country risk in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, where she has lived, worked and travelled extensively.

Prior to Wallbrook, Mariana led field and desk-based investigations into human rights, corruption and deforestation in Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa at Global Witness. Her investigations were widely published, including by the New York Times, BBC, Financial Times, The Economist and Le Monde.

Previously, Mariana was based at Amnesty International’s Johannesburg office in South Africa, where she led research and advocacy projects on business and human rights in Angola and Mozambique; and worked in Geneva for the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Mariana began her career on the Business and Human Rights team at Mattos Filho Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil. The firm has been ranked as the top law firm in Latin America by Chambers & Partners. She also completed placements with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Tribunal of Justice of São Paulo.

Mariana holds a master’s degree in Human Rights from the Paris School of International Affairs – Sciences Po and a bachelor’s degree in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. She is admitted to practice law in Brazil.

She speaks Portuguese and French.