Lea Di Salvatore
Visiting Stay: August 2026 – September 2026
Lea Di Salvatore is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL) at the University of Eastern Finland, where her research focuses on climate, energy and decarbonisation. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Nottingham, where her doctoral research examined the legal and policy barriers to phasing out fossil fuels in the Global South, with a particular focus on Mozambique.
From 2023 to 2024, she worked at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, at the Columbia Law School, where she conducted research on international investment law, climate change, export finance and ISDS reform, and contributed to capacity-building activities with government officials. Her work examines the role of international economic law in the energy transition, particularly the interaction between climate change law, investment protection, export finance and fossil-fuel phase-out. In 2024–2025, she also led the research project Greening Export Finance and Investment Treaties in Africa, funded by the Africa-Europe Foundation.