Teresa Vicente Giménez is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Deputy Director of the Center for Cooperation and Development Studies (CECODE) of the University of Murcia. She is also Director of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature of the same University. Her teaching and research profile as a professor of Philosophy of Law concerns theory of justice and human rights and in this area, she has researched specifically on the new paradigm of ecological justice and the rights of nature. Giménez has been the leader of the Iniciativa Legislativa Popular (ILP), which seeks to give legal personality to the Mar Menor lagoon and its entire basin. In 2024 she was awarded with the Goldman Environmental Prize.

As of July 2024