We are lawyers, economists and policy experts who share one common goal: to identify innovative pathways to climate justice.
Meet our team
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Aoife O'Leary (she/her)
FOUNDER & CEO
Aoife is the founder and CEO of Opportunity Green. A lawyer and economist with deep environmental expertise, she founded Opportunity Green to realise her vision of working closely with governments, other NGOs and industry around the world to seize on the opportunities that come with solving the climate crisis.
Aoife is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy.
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Carly Hicks (she/her)
CHIEF STRATEGY AND IMPACT OFFICER (on parental leave)
A lawyer by trade, Carly is the Legal Director and CSIO at Opportunity Green. Carly trained at an international law firm before working as an energy lawyer at the National Grid, supporting the decarbonisation of the UK electricity system.
Carly started her career as an MEP advisor in the European Parliament, specialising in energy, the environment and fisheries. She is thrilled to have the chance to apply her legal skills and strategic organisational experience to her passion for protecting our environment.
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Gill Johnson
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Gill is the Chief Operating Officer at Opportunity Green. Gill started her career volunteering in rural South Africa, before going on to fundraise for several large international development and humanitarian charities; manage change programmes; run a UK-based climate change education charity; and start her own consulting business.
She is delighted to be able to combine her passion to protect the planet with her love of all things systems and operations.
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David Kay (he/him)
INTERIM LEGAL DIRECTOR
David is the Legal Manager at Opportunity Green. He is a qualified solicitor with a broad range of corporate, energy and projects experience at top tier law firms internationally.
He holds a Master's degree in Global Environment and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh and is passionate about using the law to drive climate action.
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Ana Laranjeira (she/her)
SENIOR MANAGER, INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING POLICY
Ana is the Senior Manager of International Shipping Policy at Opportunity Green, focusing on shipping decarbonisation.
Her background includes international maritime decarbonisation within the International Maritime Organization, climate diplomacy, and just transition policy, having worked both in government and civil society.
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Hannah Jolliffe (she/her)
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
Hannah has a track record of using content, comms and storytelling to help charities, businesses and brands amplify their mission.
Notable roles include being launch editor of a new community site for Which?, leading on communications at plastic awareness charity RAW Foundation and consultancy roles on climate and sustainability campaigns for clients such as Unilever, Sustrans and the European Environment Foundation.
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Kirsty Mitchell (she/her)
LEGAL MANAGER
Kirsty is a Legal Manager at Opportunity Green. She is a qualified solicitor with a range of experience in energy and environmental law. Before joining Opportunity Green, Kirsty worked in the energy and climate change practice of an international law firm and completed three client secondments.
Kirsty is a Board Trustee at 2050 Climate Group and a member of the Law Society of Scotland's Sustainability Committee. She is enthusiastic to apply her legal skills to make a positive impact.
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Nuala Doyle (she/her)
POLICY OFFICER
Nuala is a Policy Officer at Opportunity Green. Prior to joining Opportunity Green, Nuala worked as a Policy Adviser within the Scottish Government's Directorate for Energy and Climate Change, specialising in international climate change. In this role, she worked on the Scottish Government's COP26 programme and hydrogen policy.
Nuala also holds a master's degree in Environment and Development from the University of Edinburgh.
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Isabela Keuschnigg (she/her)
LEGAL OFFICER
Isabela is a Legal Officer at Opportunity Green. Prior to joining Opportunity Green, Isabela worked on the Grantham Research Institute’s Climate Change Laws of the World project. Isabela holds an LLM in Transnational Law from King’s College London and a Master of Law from the University of Zurich.
During her studies, she volunteered at a Swiss non-profit organisation where she provided legal advice to asylum seekers in immigration detention. Other experience includes research on climate citizens’ assemblies and a range of private law topics.
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Blánaid Sheeran (she/her)
POLICY OFFICER
Blánaid’s background is in public international, with a focus on international negotiations, human rights and climate change.
As an LLM candidate at the LSE in 2021/2022, Blánaid's research focused on the negotiation of the right to a healthy environment at the UN. In 2021, she graduated cum laude from Maastricht University's European Law School bachelor. She is currently also a member of the Chatham House Common Future Conversations programme.
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Dominika Leitane (she/her)
LEGAL OFFICER
Dominika is a Legal Officer at Opportunity Green. Prior to joining Opportunity Green, she worked in public law at a B-Corp law firm, held legal research and casework positions at various NGOs and completed a traineeship at the European Court of Human Rights.
Dominika holds an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Amsterdam, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Law and a BSc in Psychology. She is committed to leveraging the law to achieve positive social and environmental impact.
She is currently a member of the Stewardship Committee of Legal Voices for the Future.
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Martijn Pakker (he/him)
EU POLICY & COALITION CONSULTANT
Martijn is our EU Policy and Coalition Consultant on the SASHA Coalition. His background to date has focused on EU policy in sustainability, ranging from public health to environmental policy.
He has worked with research institutes in Europe and in the global South focusing on creating enabling policies for innovations to achieve sustainability targets. A true European, he is fluent in English, Dutch, French, Spanish and German. He has a background in East European Studies from the KU Leuven and an MSc in organizational and business psychology.
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Sabrina Khan-Dighe (she/her)
PROJECT ASSISTANT
Sabrina's educational background focuses on climate change, renewable energy and a just energy transition.
Her LLM in Energy & Natural Resources Law from Queen Mary University of London focused on renewable energy law, enacting the Paris Agreement into regulation, and her dissertation focused on the impacts of energy neo-colonialism on decarbonisation in Africa and Persia. She has also completed legal research projects for international global campaigning networks. She studied French and English law in Paris and Birmingham and has experience working in dispute resolution as an ombudsman and in anti-trust law as a paralegal.
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Olivia Moyle (she/her)
LEGAL ASSISTANT
Olivia is the Legal Assistant at Opportunity Green. Prior to joining Opportunity Green, Olivia worked as a research assistant for Global Canopy where she assessed the deforestation and human rights policies of the top 500 companies and financial institutions with the largest influence on tropical deforestation.
Olivia holds a LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Bristol. Alongside her studies she conducted research into UN reporting on indigenous peoples’ right to a healthy environment. As a result of her studies in colonial and feminist critiques of human rights Olivia is most interested in the intersection of human rights and climate change.
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Daniel Lubin (he/him)
DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT
Daniel is the Digital Communications Assistant at Opportunity Green. His background is in communications and campaigning with Na’amod, a mass movement he co-founded in 2018 mobilising Jewish communities in the UK for Palestinian rights.
Beyond this, Daniel’s previous communications work has included running a social media campaign for London-based charity Integrity UK to debunk myths about the Covid vaccine in faith communities, and writing reports for social enterprise Symmitree on potential tech solutions for challenges facing migrants in transit. He holds an International Affairs MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in English Literature.
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Aqila K. Indra (she/her)
PROJECT ASSISTANT
Aqila is the Project Assistant of the International Shipping Policy Team at Opportunity Green. Prior to joining, Aqila worked with NGOs in Indonesia focusing on the sustainable development of grassroot-level communities, SMEs, and women environment leaders.
She holds a master’s degree in Development Studies from LSE, where her research focused on women-led sustainability efforts, decolonisation of the green movement, and the empowerment of marginalised and indigenous groups.
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Roo (she/her)
CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER
Roo has vast experience chasing down squirrels, barking at strangers and generally being a very good girly. She can easily be won over with treats (chicken is her favourite) but only on her own timetable. Roo’s approach to life is to “trust no one” and then once she trusts them, to sit on their lap and demand cuddles.