ESG Conference 2025: a conversation with Paola Fonseca

Paola Fonseca is Senior Corporate Counsel at Sphera, a leading provider of integrated sustainability and operational risk management software, data and consulting services. Paola has extensive expertise in corporate governance, contracting, and ESG regulatory compliance throughout Ibero-America, and is currently completing a PhD at the UN University for Peace, where she examines how multinational business practices and global ESG standards foster impact investment regulation across the value chain. Her research also addresses how EU regulations including the EU CSDDD foster 'mandatory self-regulation' in the Global South through supply chain pressures. Paola believes that the law is not merely a framework for accountability, but a powerful enabler of the impact economy.