Pedro Schilling de Carvalho

Senior fellow, Centre for Law, Economics and Society

Dr Pedro Schilling de Carvalho is a Lecturer in Financial and Environmental Law at UCL Faculty of Laws. Prior to joining UCL, Pedro has taught and worked at the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, and University of São Paulo. Pedro has broad research interests in financial regulation, corporate finance, environmental law, international economic law, and international development, with a particular focus on emerging areas such as sustainable finance, digital financial services, and blended finance. Pedro has experience providing legal and policy advice to organisations such as the Green Climate Fund, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also works on operations and advisory projects at the Legal Vice Presidency of The World Bank Group, where he contributed to flagship products such as the B-READY Report (successor to the Doing Business series), Country Climate and Development Reports, and is a certified peer-reviewer by the Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Global Practice. He holds degrees from the University of Cambridge (PhD, LLM) and from the University of São Paulo (LLB) and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.