Helena Telino Neves is a lawyer admitted in Brazil and Portugal. She is also a biologist and university professor. She holds a PhD in international law and a master's degree from the School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal). She is currently a legal advisor in the Legal Department of the Portuguese Environment Agency. Previously, she was a lawyer at the Superintendence of Environmental Administration of the State of Paraiba (Paraiba, Brazil) and a law professor at Unifacisa University Center (Paraiba, Brazil) and at the ASPER Faculty (Paraiba, Brazil). She was also Technical Director in the Legal Department of Ius Natura - Law and Environment (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), where she was responsible for the implementation and compliance with legal requirements for environmental management systems, occupational health and safety and social responsibility of several companies such as Petrobras, CIMPOR, Samsung, Ambev and Unilever. She is also a research member at the Center for Research in Public Law of the School of Law of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal) and a visiting professor in postgraduate courses. She has extensive experience in public law, particularly in the areas of constitutional law, human rights, administrative law and environmental law, and has published several articles.