Bruna Gomes Maia is a voluntary PhD researcher in the Government and Law Research Group, supervised by Esther van Zimmeren and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde (Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas). She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Bristol and is currently preparing her doctoral thesis entitled “A Regional Access and Benefit-Sharing Framework for the Amazon Biome: Compliance and Trust in the Governance of Transboundary Genetic Resources in a Biodiverse Hotspot.”
Bruna has been a qualified lawyer since 2011, following her admission to the Brazilian Bar. Alongside her academic research, she works as a legal consultant for a Belgian company, specialising in Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) regulations.
Areas of Expertise:
- Access and Benefit-sharing derived from genetic resources
- Sustainability
- Environmental Law
Selected Publications:
- Maia, B. and Bourgeois-Gironde, S. (2025) Analysis of the Working Group's Recommendations and COP-16 Decision 16/2 on Digital Sequence Information.
- Farias, T., Maia, B.G., and Lima, P.S. (2023) The Nagoya Protocol, the benefits derived from the genetic resources, and the Brazilian legislation.
- Maia, B. and Berger Filho, A. (2022) The Inclusion of the Digital Sequence Information (DSI) in the scope of the Nagoya Protocol and its consequences.
Selected Projects:
- 2026 - 2029 - A Regional Access and Benefit-Sharing Framework for the Amazon Biome: Compliance and Trust in the Governance of Transboundary Genetic Resources in a Biodiverse Hotspot.