About
Chloé Ferguson Smith is a Policy Officer with Sustainability Law and Policy Clinic (SLPC) and the Sustainability Regulation Observatory (SRO), based between the LSE Law School and Global School of Sustainability. Her work focuses on policy-oriented analysis of legal strategies that enhance sustainability, and deepening connection and engagement of students with real-world projects to advance environmental and social justice. She brings over a decade of experience working as a lawyer at the interface of climate law and policy, public health and human rights.
Chloé was previously a Research Fellow at the UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) based at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of multiple policy reports on cleantransportation and co-managed the secretariat for the international Transportation Decarbonisation Alliance (TDA).
Prior to joining CLEE, she practiced law in Switzerland spanning government, private practice, and nonprofit advocacy. Chloé holds Law degrees from the University of Geneva (LLB, Master of Law, Certificate of Transnational Law), including an exchange at York University in Toronto, and UC Berkeley (LL.M. & Certificate of specialisation in Environmental Law). She holds a bar qualification in Switzerland.
Beyond academia, Chloé has been an advocate before the United Nations Human Rights Council, most recently before the UN Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council supporting the Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) and Sivuqaq tribes in collaboration with the UC Berkeley’s Environmental Law Clinic. She also serves on the board of Chemical Alert Africa and Juristes progressistes vaudois-es as well as provides support to a community of Swiss advocates and scholars in the climate and innovation ecosystem, as a member of Avocat.es pour le Climat and mentor for Swissnex San Francisco. She is also an active member of Stanford University’s Plastics and Health Working Group where she helps advance work at the intersection between microplastic pollution policy and the one health framework.
Research
Publications prior to joining the Global School of Sustainability
Meyer Amelia M., Smith Chloé F., Meister Kara, Desiree LaBeaud Angelle and Patel Sarina, Microplastic pollution policy and one health: a critical perspective on California legislation as a case study, in Frontiers Environmental Science, 2026, Sci. 14:1878679. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2026.1878679.
Smith, Chloé F., Elkind Ethan, E-Fueling Flight, How to Increase In-State Production of Electrofuels for Aviation in California and Beyond, UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE), June 2026.
Smith, Chloé F., Elkind Ethan, California’s Advanced Clean Trucks Regulation, Key Decisions and Stakeholder Impact, CLEE, April 2026.
Smith, Chloé F., Elkind Ethan, Supply-Side Regulations to Accelerate Clean Truck Deployment, CLEE, March 2026.
Helfrich Jennifer, Smith, Chloé F., Elkind Ethan and Lidiya Kassahun, Zero-Emission Trucks: A Factsheet Series, CLEE, 2024 -2025.
Smith, Chloé F., How Can a Mandatory Right-to-Repair Address the Global E-Waste Problem? in Ecology Law Quarterly, 2024, v. 51, n. 2, p. 397, doi. 10.15779/Z38F47GW39.
Smith Chloé F., Corporate social responsibility et durabilité : Quels rapports et quelles limites ? in Expert Focus, 6-7, 2016, pp. 471-475.
The rights of women without a legal status in Geneva, Law Clinic on the rights of vulnerable persons, University of Geneva, Faculty of Law, August 2014.