Lawyer and Gender Equity Advocate
Member, Women's Leadership Board, Women and Public Policy Program
Rachel Bejla has 20 years of experience as a corporate lawyer in Brazil, having worked at one of Brazil’s most prominent law firms for the first ten years of her career. Rachel then moved to work in the sugar and ethanol industry as in-house counsel and from there to an Australian investment bank. She was also involved in matters of diversity and gender equality.
In 2008, Rachel joined Associacao Maria Helen Drexel, a charity that maintains foster homes for children in vulnerable situations.