Domnina (Nina) Rances
Southeast Asia Lead Lawyer
Domnina (Nina) Rances is the lead lawyer at CliDef for the Southeast Asia region, where she works to support and coordinate the organization’s legal network across the region.
Prior to CliDef, Nina was a partner at Aguila Rances Law Offices and served as Climate Law Lobbying Specialist for the Philippine Commission on Human Rights.
She is a trustee at Climate Action and Human Rights Institute. Nina is a dual-qualified attorney in the Philippines and in New York.
She holds an LLM from the University of Southern California and a Juris Doctor from the Ateneo de Manila University.