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Ellie Mulholland

Director

 Ellie Mulholland

Ellie Mulholland is Director of the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative or the CCLI, where she leads a collaboration between partner organisations across the globe, including Oxford University, environmental law charity Client Earth and commercial law firm MinterEllison. Since its launch by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in 2015, the CCLI has been at the forefront of legal research and stakeholder engagement on the intersection of climate and biodiversity risk and companies and securities laws. As an Australian-qualified lawyer, Ellie is a Senior Associate at MinterEllison, the largest commercial law firm in Asia Pacific, where she advises government entities and corporations across a diverse range of sectors on climate change liability risk management and disclosure. Ellie is on the Steering Committee of The Chancery Lane Project, a global initiative to re-wire contracts and laws for climate action, the management team for the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, and the Technical Working Group for the Climate Disclosure Standards Board