Emily Gerrard

Emily is a Director and Principal Lawyer at Comhar Group Pty Limited, an Australian-based legal and policy advisory firm. She is an environmental and climate change law specialist with extensive experience in native title, Indigenous land use agreements, renewable energy and resource development projects and environmental markets. 

Emily works with ASX listed companies, First Nations peoples and organisations, governments and peak bodies. She advises matters under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement and she regularly attends party negotiations under the UNFCCC framework. 

Emily is currently a non-executive director of the Australian Carbon Market Institute and member of the Law Institute of Victoria’s Environmental Issues Committee. 

Emily is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia. She holds Bachelor degrees in Science and Law (Honours), is a keen photographer and an avid supporter of the Collingwood Football Club.