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Gilberto Rincón González founder and current director of CEID-Colombia - Center of studies for sustainable development, has broad experience, working for more than 20 years as senior legal counsel for multinational oil companies . He was a Member of theColombian delegation to negotiate the UNFCCC Kyoto Protocol cop 6 in The Hague Holland. President of the Colombian Environmental Bar Association and its permanent delegate to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development-CSD, in New York.
Gilberto is a lawyer specialized in Environmental Law at the Rosario University and has a MBA of the IESE –Navarra University in Spain and a degree in Comparative Law from the University of Texas At Dallas. Gilberto is currently responsible for implementing in Colombia the program of the United States Environmental Protection agency-EPA, on Environmental law, Enforcement and Compliance and has translated to Spanish and published with the Rosario University the Lester Brown’s books Plan B 2.0 and Plan B 3.0
During the last four years, Gilberto has been involved in teaching and research activities, with special emphasis in Climate law, Enforcement and Compliance and Multilateral Environmental agreements.
Dr. Professor Wang Xi is Associate Dean of the Law School, and Director of the Environmental and Resources Law Institute, of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is a leading environmental law scholar in China. He is a member of the Academic Committee of the Key Institute of Education Ministry of P.R.C for the Field of Environmental Law. He is Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Environmental and Resources Law. He served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor General of Hubei Province from 2000-2002. He is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He received B.A degree from Wuhan Normal College in 1981. He graduated from the Law School of Wuhan University in 1984 (M.L.) and from Washington University Law School in 1987 (M.J.S). He got Ph.D. in Law from Wuhan University Law School in 2000. In addition to teaching, he has provided legal consultation on environmental law for Chinese national and local legislatures and international organizations. He has been invited as visiting professor and conference participants by environmental law institutions in North America, Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia and Africa. His major publications include a university textbook of International Environmental Law book on Environmental Law of USA and the Volume of Environmental Law of China, the International Encyclopedia of Laws published by Kluwer Law International in 2006
