{"id":877,"date":"2026-06-02T20:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/social-and-applied-ecology\/?page_id=877"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:45:02","slug":"marzia-briel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/social-and-applied-ecology\/marzia-briel\/","title":{"rendered":"Marzia Briel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Highly professional, personable, and compassionate”<\/em><\/p>\n

Marzia is a lawyer with diverse experience in aspects of nature governance, land law, risk assessment and intellectual property.<\/p>\n

Previous clients include:<\/p>\n

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ARIA<\/strong>: Developing a systemic risk assessment framework to anticipate long-term risks of environmental solutions (e.g. transgenic species, Rights of Nature, biodiversity net gain).<\/p>\n

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UKRI:<\/strong> Principal investigator for an Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Project, funded by Innovate UK, to investigate the impact of AI data mining on Open Access Research Data in the Higher Education environment.<\/p>\n

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University of Reading: Marzia is a part-time Lecturer at UoR, benefitting from the opportunity for affiliated consultancy or independent commissions. Staff web page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Background<\/h2>\n

Marzia is a UK and South African qualified solicitor specialised in Commercial Law, with career experience in the Global Financial Services industry in various Legal, Compliance and Risk Governance roles. In 2020, she moved into the Public Science and Engineering sector working for the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the legal, policy and governance aspects of science research data, public\/private partnerships and the legal and ethical complexities of publicly funded science research. Her cross-disciplinary experience and agile approach have allowed her to identify and find solutions to emerging exploitation risks where public knowledge, goods, utilities and funds are at stake. Marzia is currently working to help government, businesses and corporate practitioners to critically develop nature-centric governance approaches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Academic qualifications<\/h2>\n

Qualified Foreign Lawyer, Master of Law (Commercial Law), Bachelor of Law, International Compliance Association Diploma in Compliance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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