Lelia Mooney Sirotinsky
Professor Mooney is a renowned expert in governance, rule of law, business sustainability, change management, transformational leadership, peacebuilding, and multi-stakeholder engagement.
Her applied research and practice span human-centered AI governance, human rights compliance in supply chains, and organizational and systemic reform across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
With deep experience in the public, non-profit, and private sectors, she has led complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives with academic institutions, governments, civil society organizations, international organizations, and local communities. Her work in frontier, emerging, and conflict-affected economies — combined with a cultural savvy, multidisciplinary, and human-centered approach — is central to her teaching philosophy and scholarship.
In April 2022, she received the American Bar Association International Law Section's Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law, recognizing professional excellence in international law and sustained commitment to expanding opportunities for women in the field.
Professor Mooney is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies Master in Supply Chain Management program and is affiliated with the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Center for Latin American Studies. She has lectured at George Mason University's Center for Business Civic Engagement and Schar School of Policy and Government, the National Defense University's William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense, the Inter-American Defense College, the University of Defense of Argentina, the Matías Delgado Business School in El Salvador, and numerous other institutions. She is a regular contributor to conferences and panels in the United States and internationally.
She has served on the International Steering Committee of the Voluntary Principles for Business and Human Rights and the UN Global Compact Business for the Rule of Law Initiative, and is active on several boards and charitable and multi-stakeholder platforms. She is a member of the American Society of International Law, the American Bar Association, and the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. Her publications — in both English and Spanish — include Promoting the Rule of Law: A Practitioner's Guide to Key Issues and Developments and The Business, Human Rights and Sustainability Sourcebook, both published by the American Bar Association.
Professor Mooney holds an LL.B. from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste in Argentina, an LL.M. in Law in Developing Societies from the University of Warwick Law School, and an LL.M. in General Studies from Georgetown Law Center. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and she is fluent in French and Portuguese.