Biography

A full employment history can be viewed on LinkedIn.

Brief Biography:

Lydia Lazar is the Managing Director of Global Legal Talent.com, a specialized legal recruiting company. She also leads LHL Consulting, where she helps institutions, organizations and companies solve operational issues and jumpstart solutions to business development challenges. Educated as a geographer and an attorney, from 2021-2024 Lydia provided consulting services and was appointed as the full time Managing Director at AcresUSA, a 50+ year old multimedia publishing company focused on production-scale organic and regenerative farming. Working with LHL, Lydia has provided international recruitment and organizational strategy consulting, among other assignments. Previous full time engagements include as an associate dean at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, and before that, as the dean of international law and policy at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ms. Lazar holds an AB degree in government/international relations from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in geography from Columbia University with a focus on urban hydrology, and a JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Ms. Lazar is active/admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and has completed Northwestern University’s mediation training program.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Lazar worked as an executive reporting to the President of Waste Management International, as chief of staff to the CEO of the Division of Public Services in the Department of General Services of the City of New York, and as an agricultural researcher reporting to Dr. Barry Commoner at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems.