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Nilufer Oral is a member of the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey and is Deputy Director of the Istanbul Bilgi Marine Research Center for the Law of the Sea. In addition to serving on the Board of the IUCN Academy for Environmental Law she co-chairs the IUCN Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts and Coral Reefs of the Commission on Environmental Law and was elected as IUCN Regional Councillor (2012-2016).
She advises the Turkish Foreign Ministry on law of the sea, climate change and has participated as a negotiator with the Turkish Delegation in UNFCCC negotiations since 2010. She has also served as legal advisor to the Turkish Foreign Ministry Delegation at the International Maritime Organization 1998-2002.
Nilufer Oral is a Distinguished Senior Visiting Scholar at the Law of the Sea Institute, University of California School of Law, Berkeley (2011-2013).
She has published on issues related to law of the sea and protection of the marine environment.
Rob Fowler is an Adjunct Professor in the Law School at the University of South Australia, having retired in late 2008 after teaching and researching in the field of environmental law in Australia for over thirty years. He continues to teach environmental law part-time at the University of South Australia and also at the University of Adelaide and the Australian National University. He is the Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and represents the Oceania region on its Governing Board. Rob is also Chair of the South Australian Environmental Defender’s Office, a public interest environmental law firm, and serves as a member of the Governing Board of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a national environmental NGO in Australia. He is also a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission, and participates in two of its Specialist Groups, on soils and forests. His research interests include climate change, forestry, soils and protection of the marine environment.
