About Assunção Cristas

Assunção Cristas joined VdA as an of counsel in 2022 and is the head of the firm’s ESG Integrated Services Platform and Environment practice, which encompasses ocean and agriculture-related matters. She is an associate professor at Nova School of Law, where she lectures at the undergraduate level, in addition to acting as co-ordinator of the Master’s degree in Law and Economics of the Sea. From September 2009 to January 2020, Assunção held several political positions, including Minister of Agriculture, Sea, and Environment. During her term of office she was responsible for the institutional reorganisation of several areas of administration, the negotiation of the European Common Agricultural Policy reform, and the participation in the Climate COPs.