Women Leaders in Law Fellowship for Rachel Devine

This Fellowship is supporting Rachel to complete the Stanford Executive Leadership Program in the United States.

Borrin Foundation Women Leaders in Law Fellowship

Rachel’s plan

The Borrin Foundation Women Leaders in Law Fellowship will support Rachel to experience the Executive Leadership Program at Stanford University in March 2026.

This fellowship complements Rachel’s participation in the Berkley Technology Leadership programme, which focuses on practical applications of AI and big data through entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy.

Through the Executive Leadership Program Rachel will be exploring how law, environmental data, and other fields can solve real-world challenges, while strengthening her business leadership through advanced tools, frameworks, and deeper self-awareness so she can inspire teams and drive impact.

About Rachel

Rachel Devine works at the intersection of leadership, data and law. Rachel has specialised in environmental law over almost three decades, solving problems where people and the environment connect. Rachel supports the provision of infrastructure and large projects, navigates the delivery of sustainability commitments, and hurdles the legal challenges that disasters bring. She is consistently at the frontier of environmental law reform. Her clients appreciate her astute grasp of context and ability to deliver clarity and momentum.

Rachel was a partner in a large law firm for 15 years and now has her own law practice. She is a Past-President of New Zealand’s Resource Management Law Association. Rachel loves travelling and is learning to sketch, play golf and tell better stories. She believes if governments enable people to access public environmental data then people and the planet will be better off.

In addition to expanding her knowledge of big data and using it in a leadership context, Rachel is a business owner, business adviser, board director, government advisory board member and a trained coach.