Alfred Brownell Net Worth

Background and career

Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell (born 1965 or 1966) is a Liberian environmental activist and lawyer. He is currently the Founding President of Global Climate Legal Defense, a legal organization that uses the law to keep climate defenders free to speak and to act.

Brownell met international attention because of his advocacy to prevent the destruction of tropical forests in Liberia for palm oil production. After receiving death threats as a result of his work, he and his family fled Liberia in 2016. He won the Goldman Environmental Prize, also called the "Green Nobel," in 2019 for his work protecting more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) of the tropical forest that were traditional lands of local communities.