Advisory Board
President
Members
Antonio Benjamin
Judge of the High Court of Brazil, President of the IUCN Global Commission on Environmental Law, Brazil
Bharat Desai
Professor of international law, holder of the Jawaharlal Nehru Chair of International Environmental Law, President of the Center for International Environmental Law. Environmental Law, Chairman, Center for International Legal Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
Claudia De Windt
Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Justice and Sustainability (IIJS). Associate Professor, American University, Washington College of Law
Daniel Etsy
Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law & Policy Yale University, United States
Donald Kaniaru
Lawyer, Managing Partner of Kaniaru & Kaniaru Advocates, Nairobi, Former Director of Environmental Policy Implementation Division and Environmental Conventions Division at UNEP, Former Chairman of the National Environmental Tribunal of Kenya, Kenya
Erin Daly
Director of the Dignity Rights Clinic and US Representative to the CIDCE
Ginevra Le Moli
Professor at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, and member of the Cambridge Center for Environment, Energy & Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge.
Jeffrey Sachs
University professor; director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute
John Knox
Lauerman Professor of International Law, Wake Forest University; former United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and the environment.
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
Professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
Luc Lavrysen
Judge at the Constitutional Court of Belgium, President of the European Forum of Judges for the Environment, Professor of Environmental Law at the Center for Environmental and Energy Law, Ghent University, Belgium.
Margaret Young
Professor, Melbourne Law School, Australian Research Council Future Fellow
Nicholas Robinson
Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, Co-Director of the Global Center for Environmental Legal Studies (GCELS), Executive Governor of the International Council on Environmental Law (ICEL), United States
Paulo Magalhães
Founder and president of the Common Home of Humanity. Lawyer and researcher at the CIJE (Legal and Economic Research Center) of the University of Porto.
Philile Mbatha
Deputy Director of the One Ocean Hub, South Africa
Tianbao Qin
Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law (RIEL) of Wuhan University; Secretary General of the Chinese Society of Environment and Resources Law (CSERL), China
Victor Tafur
Director of the United Nations Environmental Diplomacy Program and Assistant Professor of Law at Pace University.
Yann Aguila
President of the Environment Commission of the Club des juristes, Lawyer at the Paris Bar, Bredin Prat, France
Ben Boer
Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, former Deputy Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (2012-2016), Australia
Christina Voigt
Professor at the University of Oslo, Chair of the IUCN Climate Change Specialist Group, Legal Advisor to the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, Norway
Claudia Ituarte-Lima
Thematic Lead & Senior Researcher at Raoul Wallenberg Inst. (RWI), Lund, Sweden & Director of the Global Network of Human Rights & Environment (GNHRE)
David R. Boyd
Former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment. Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
Edith Weiss
Professor Edith Brown Weiss, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law, Georgetown University Law Center, United States
Geneviève Dufour
Professor at the University of Sherbrooke, president of the Société québécoise de droit international, president of the French-speaking Network of International Law, Canada
Jaap Spier
Global Justice Fellow at Yale University. Former advocate general at the Supreme Court.
Jinfeng Zhou
Secretary General of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation, China; vice-president of the World Green Design Organization, Belgium
Jorge Vinuales
Professor at the University of Cambridge (Harold Samuel Chair of Environmental Law and Policy), Director of the Cambridge Center for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Chairman of the UNECE/WHO Protocol Compliance Committee Europe on water and health, Argentina
Linda Wong
Deputy Secretary-General of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF); member of the IUCN WCPA.
Makane Mbengue
Professor of international law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva, Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po Paris (Faculty of Law), Senegal
Maria Antonia Tigre
Director of Global Climate Change Litigation at the Sabin Center, Columbia Law School.
Nilüfer Oral
Professor at the Faculty of Law of Istanbul Bilgi University, member of the United Nations International Law Commission, Turkey
Parvez Hassan
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Chairman Emeritus, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, Pakistan
Sandrine Maljean-Dubois
Director of research at the CNRS, director of the joint research unit International, Comparative and European Law, professor of international law at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
Tony Oposa
Creative lawyer, organizer and activist for environmental legislation in the Philippines
Yacouba Savadogo
Legal expert in environmental law, IUCN, IUCN Regional Office for Central and West Africa, member of the World Commission on Environmental Law, coordinator of the French-speaking African Network of Environmental Lawyers (RAFJE ), Burkina Faso