Governing Board

The Governing Board consists of ten persons elected by representatives of the member institutions of the Academy. Click on each member's name below for a biographical note.

The Chair of IUCN's Commission on Environmental Law and the head of IUCN's Environmental Law Program are ex officio members of the Governing Board, to ensure close continuing cooperation with IUCN in the implementation of the Academy's research recommendations. The Director is also an ex officio member. The Governing Board defines the Academy's projects and operations.

Members of the Governing Board

	Rob Fowler Chair, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Professor, University of South Australia, Australia Region: Oceania
	Michael Kidd Deputy Chair, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Region: Africa
	Gilberto Rincon Professor, Centre for Studies in Sustainable Development, Colombia Region: South America
	Bharat H. Desai Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Region: West Asia
	Jose Juan Gonzalez Marquez Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico Region: Meso-America
	Benjamin J. Richardson Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada Region: North America and the Caribbean
	Nilufer Oral Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey Region: Eastern Europe and Central Asia
	Lye Lin Heng Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore Region: South East and East Asia
	Marjan Peeters Professor, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Region: Western Europe
	Wang Xi Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Region: North Asia
	Sheila Abed de Zavala (ex officio) Chair, IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, Paraguay
	Alejandro Iza (ex officio) Head, IUCN Environmental Law Programme Director, IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Germany
	Jamie Benidickson (ex officio) Director, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
	Yves Le Bouthillier (ex officio) Director, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa