Vicki-Ann Assevero
Vicki-Ann Assevero is an accomplished international lawyer, advocate and social entrepreneur with longstanding expertise in sustainable development. A former partner at Holland Knight, she represented multinational energy companies, international organizations and many developing countries in their relations with IFIs and private investors. Early in her career she worked at U.S. Commerce Department and the OECD in Paris on issues surrounding personal privacy on digital platforms.
She has special expertise in convening multiple stakeholders across disciplines and mediating their inputs to develop and test policy options, Through the implementation of these negotiated solutions, she has been adept at creating communities of practice.
Vicki founded The Green Market Santa Cruz in 2012 as an experiment in community based sustainable development. The Green Market was recognized in 2016 by the UNEP as an example of integrated sustainable development in practice. She maintains a deep commitment to foste4ring food and nutritional security.
She was the inaugural Senior Fellow for the Caribbean Initiative at the Atlantic Council.
Vicki is also a Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University her alma mater,
She received her JD from Harvard Law School and an LLM in sustainable development diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.