Priscila da Mata Cavalcante has been a Prosecutor, in the Brazilian State of Paraná, for almost 13 years, in which she led the Coastal Watershed Regional Coordination, the regional environmental unit of the Prosecutor’s Office in the Atlantic Forest, from 2014 until 2021, working with major infrastructure projects of ports, roads, railways, special engineering structures; supervising Environmental and Urban Impact Assessments; participating in public hearings and coastal management council meetings; protecting environmental and indigenous rights in civil and criminal complex cases, mostly related to environmental licensing, master plans, pollution, deforestation and wildlife.
Academically, she is a LLM Candidate of the European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) of the University of Rotterdam, University of Hamburg and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research. Furthermore, she holds a Master’s Degree in Public Law from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), a MBA in Project Management from ISAE/FGV and a Law Degree from the University of São Paulo (USP).
Recent/Selected Publications
Article
Book Chapter
- Oliveira R.K., Andreoli C.V., da Mata Cavalcante P. (2019). Curbing Corruption in Brazilian Environmental Governance: A Collective Action and Problem-Solving Approach. In CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance: Corporate Social Responsibility in Brazil. Stehr Christopher., Dziatzko N., Struve F. (Eds). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90605-8.
- Environmental Criminal Law
- Environmental Law and Economics
- International Economic Law
- Investment and National Security
- Sustainable Finance
Projects
Research Project – Foreign Direct Investment, National Security and Environmental Risks
Over the last three years, a wave of international threats imposed national responses, as several countries have either enacted or updated their legislation to add a screening process of foreign direct investment, including China (2019), India (2020), the EU (2019), the UK (2021) and the USA (2018). Therefore, in the connection between national security and FDI, there are two gaps to be sewed: (i) the control of FDI in activities considered strategic to the country and (ii) the intelligence assessment, investigation and prosecution of illicit financial flows, protecting the economic order, fighting money laundering, and developing a screening mechanism of FDI based upon national security risks, specially the environmental impact of infrastructure projects.
