Dr. Lela Mélon, a former Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and the 2021 Emerging Sustainability Leader Awardee (by World Sustainability Foundation), has a legal and economics background. She is the former Executive Director of the Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework at the Pompeu Fabra University and the academic director and a professor of the postgraduate programme Sustainability Transition Management and Climate Emergency at ESCI-UPF, she is specialised in EU law, with a main focus on corporate conduct and sustainability, on which she published the book Shareholder Primacy and Global Business (Routledge 2018). She is currently researching policy coherence for sustainability at the EU level, focusing on corporate law policies as well as the challenges of policy and legislative barriers in the existing EU business law framework for sustainable corporate conduct and sustainable outcomes. Besides being active in the academic field, she created and implemented a three-step systemic approach towards sustainability, which entailed the insertion of separate sustainable corporate law course in academic curricula and a simultaneous sustainable revision of the existing and well-established academic curricula in economics and law. Additionally to the abovementioned, Dr. Lela Mélon is a lecturer at the Masters on Planetary Health (carried out jointly by the UPF, UOC and IS Global) in the course of Global and multilevel governance in planetary health; a lecturer at ESSEC Paris in the course Sustainable Finance and Law in Sustainability Management; a lecturer at CEI Barcelona in the course Companies as actors in Sustainable Development; and a lecturer at UPF Masters in Global and European Law in the course Sustainable Business Law, which she developed in the framework of her Marie Curie funded SCOM project. Currently researching EU policy coherence for sustainability, she is also cooperating with the industry as a senior sustainability consultant at msg global solutions.
