Marcelo Dias

Marcelo is a Brazilian native, born in the rural Brazilian State of Goias. He decided to come to Vermont to attain an LLM degree in Environmental Law & Policy at the Vermont Law School in 2017. He earned his degree by the end of 2018.

Before coming to Vermont, he practiced environmental law as an Attorney in Brazil for eleven years. He has experience on environmental consulting and litigation for public and private clients in his home country where he also used to teach environmental law at the Brazilian Bar Association. Marcelo has been engaged in public policy work in Brazil. Due to his high commitment with environmental issues in his country, he was nominated the draftsman of the Forest Code for his home state, which was designed to ensure sustainable forestry practices in the region’s fragile savannas.

Prior interning with Audubon Vermont, Marcelo worked as a legal intern at the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, D.C where he researched international environmental law, Latin America environmental law, and climate change issues. Marcelo also interned with the Vermont River Conservancy in Montpelier.

At Audubon Vermont, Marcelo is assisting the organization with wetlands and wildlife conservation in Vermont and also assisting the Director of International Alliances Program in Washington, D.C, to develop policies to help shape the economic and conservation policy agenda in Audubon’s project in Central and Latin America. He is a bird lover and addicted to nature.