Dr. Nicole de Paula is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women Leaders for Planetary Health, a social enterprise bridging the gaps between the health and environmental sectors through gender-just solutions. In 2019, she became the first awardee of the prestigious Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany.
For more than a decade, she has been globally connecting policymakers and researchers to create a public understanding of critical issues related to sustainability, the environment, and public health and and equity. Her most recent research focuses on decision-making and international cooperation in the post-Covid19 world, as well as digitalization and sustainability.
She holds several advisory roles, including at SHE Changes Climate, PlaHNet, and the International Advisory Panel for REACH: Resilience to Environmental Change and Emerging Health Threats, and has has been consulting with international organizations under the UN system on themes related to climate change, biodiversity, chemicals, financial and urban affairs.
Originally from Brazil, she speaks Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish.