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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) . 
• Farias, T., Maia, B.G., and Lima, P.S. (2023) . 
• Maia, B. and Berger Filho, A. (2022) . 

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.