Flavio Ahmed

Flavio is a lawyer and social scientist, and has been practicing law for over 25 years. He holds a doctoral degree in Collective Rights from PUC-SP and has an intense academic activity, teaching in several postgraduate courses, among which FGV, EMERJ (Rio de Janeiro School of Judges), and in a number of renowned Brazilian institutions. Because of those activities, he is also a frequent lecturer, speaking in congresses and seminars in Brazil and abroad. At Lobo & Lira Advogados, he is a special counsel and head of the environmental practice area, drafting legal opinions, advising companies in an advisory and preventive capacity, and representing them in licensing proceedings, in addition to his practice in administrative and judicial litigation. He has been a member of the Council of the Brazilian Bar Association – Rio de Janeiro Chapter since 2007, where he is also a member of the Environmental Law Committee (chairman), of the Committee for the Protection of the Rule of Law (member), and of the Urbanistic and Real Estate Law Committee – CD.URBI (member). He is a member of the Brazilian Lawyers Institute – IAB and has more than one hundred articles published in specialized law reviews in Brazil and abroad. He has also coordinated more than 10 books on environmental law, in addition to his own production as an author, notably by means of the works: “Direitos Culturais e Cidadania Ambiental no Cotidiano das Cidades" [“Cultural Rights and Environmental Citizenship in the Everyday Life of the Cities”] and “Tutela Jurídica das Praias Urbanas no Direito Ambiental Brasileiro” [“Legal Protection of the Urban Beaches under Brazilian Environmental Law”], both published by Lumen Juris, of which he is a member of the Editorial Board.