Lea joined ClientEarth's Berlin office in August 2021. She works across programmes on international law issues.
Most recently, Lea worked as a legal and research assistant at Chambers in London, covering a variety of public international law issues, including inter-state litigation before the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. She has been volunteering for many years in the field of flight and migration, working on integration, immigration detention and search and rescue in the Central Mediterranean.
Lea holds an LLB from Maastricht University, an LLM in Human Rights from University College London and an LLM in International Environmental Law from the George Washington University.