Mrs Daniela Demôro

Graduated in Law from PUC-Rio, she is currently a PhD candidate in Law and Political Science at Université d’Angers, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Economic Law (Mention Bien). She also holds a Diplôme d’Université – Pratique de l’Arbitrage (Mention Bien) from Université Versailles – Paris-Saclay. She has been acting as an arbitrator and board advisor since 2022 and is listed as a referenced arbitrator with the Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA) and CAM-AMCHAM.
She is Co-Founder and President of the Global Arbitration & Sustainability Forum (GLAS Forum), a think tank established in 2025 and headquartered in Paris. The GLAS Forum aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue among legal practitioners, corporations, academia, civil society, and public policymakers, contributing to the development of risk mitigation models and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms addressing systemic challenges arising from climate transitions and the ESG agenda.
With more than 30 years of experience, she has built a solid executive, legal, and interdisciplinary career across the public, private, and third sectors. She was a partner at Gouvêa Vieira Advogados for eight years, advising on M&A transactions and foreign investments. She held executive board-level positions in multinational corporations, including Director of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability and General Counsel & Compliance Director for South America at Michelin, as well as Legal Director at Volkswagen do Brasil. She also served for more than 12 years as Superintendent of private pension foundations and as Superintendent of Fundação VW (third sector).
Within government, she most recently served as Special Advisor to the State Secretary of Finance of Rio de Janeiro, coordinating the program “Green Economy: A New Frontier,” which included negotiating and executing a Memorandum of Understanding with Nasdaq to structure a digital platform for environmental asset transactions and carbon market operations. She was also appointed by then Minister Izabella Teixeira to serve on the Advisory Council of the Brazilian Network of Women Leaders for Sustainability and was invited as a member of the Brazilian Government delegation to attend COP21 in December 2015 during the negotiation of the Paris Agreement.
Throughout her career, she has engaged in diverse cultural environments and enhanced her expertise through executive education programs at leading academic institutions in Brazil and abroad. She has lived in France, China, and Japan and is fluent in French, English, and Portuguese.