- Speaker Highlights
- Founding partner of the Inter-American Institute for Justice and Sustainability (IIJS)
- Counselor of the Yacyretá Binational Entity -Hydropower Dam- (2016 to 2018) Minister of Justice and Labor of the Republic of Paraguay (2013 - 2016)
- Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (WCEL- IUCN) (2004-2012)
- Former Special Envoy for Environmental Justice for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
- Executive Director of the Institute on Economics and Environmental Law (IDEA) in Paraguay
- Chair of the Conservation Alliance for Latin American and the Caribbean (ALCA)
Sheila Abed
Sheila Abed is a founding partner in IIJS and a renowned Paraguayan lawyer. She served as Counselor of the Yacyretá Binational Hydropower Dam from 2016 to 2018, as the Minister of Justice and Labor of the Republic of Paraguay from 2013 to 2016, and as Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (WCEL- IUCN) from November 2004 to September 2012. She was also Special Envoy for Environmental Justice for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Abed is a Founder and serves as the Executive Director of the Institute on Economics and Environmental Law (IDEA) in Paraguay and Chair of the Conservation Alliance for Latin American and the Caribbean (ALCA). She has a law degree from the National University of Asunción, an L.L.M in Environmental Law from the University of Limoges, France and the Catholic University “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción,” and a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires..