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Gustavo Alanis Ortega
Gustavo Alanis Ortega
Mr. Alanís-Ortega received his law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, where he now teaches the environmental law course at the law school. He is also co-director of the university's post-graduate diploma program in environmental law and policy. Mr. Alanis holds a master's degree in international law from the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC. Since August 1993, he has been president of the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Mexican Environmental Law Center-CEMDA), a public interest environmental law firm based in Mexico City.
He is also active as a columnist for Reforma, one of Mexico's most widely read and influential newspapers. He is a member of the seventh cohort of the Leadership on Environment and Development Program (LEAD). Mr. Alanís-Ortega serves on the boards of directors of Appleseed-México and the Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), and is a member of Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW), the Climate Change Advisory Committee in Mexico, and the Environmental Law Advisory Group at the Department of Sustainable Development of the Organization of American States (OAS).
In April 2008 he was appointed by the Mexico City Legislative Assembly to serve on the Citizen Board of the Office of the Environmental and Zoning Prosecutor (Procuraduría Ambiental y del Ordenamiento Territorial-PAOT). Also in 2008, he was appointed to a second term on the CEC's Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC).
Dr. Robert Kibugi
Dr. Robert Kibugi is a lecturer in law Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law (CASELAP) and the School of Law, University of Nairobi, and has previously taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, in Canada. He hold a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and, a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree from the School of Law, University of Nairobi, and a Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, and is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya.
His legal and policy research agenda focuses on among others, public participation in natural resource governance; land use law for sustainable development; climate change including role of law and policy in adaptation and mitigation to climate change; and energy law, water resources rights and management, water resource security and investments, water and sanitation. He has published various chapters and articles in peer reviewed books and journals, available on request, and indicated at:
http://profiles.uonbi.ac.ke/rmkibugi/publications
Rob Fowler
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.
Nilufer Oral
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.
Gilberto Rincón González
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.
