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Catherine Redgwell (Chair)
Amanda Byer
Clare Coffey
Lorenzo Cotula
Emily Massawa
Tony La Viña

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TRUSTEES

Kate Gilmore (Chair)

Kate Gilmore is an independent consultant who specialises in working with national and international non-governmental organisations. She spent most of the past decade as Amnesty International's Executive Deputy Secretary General.

Previously, Kate was National Director of Amnesty International Australia and had worked in the Australian public health sector, including as an expert in women’s human rights and on violence against women.

Kate has degrees from the University of New England, the University of Melbourne and the former Phillip Institute of Technology.

Owen Greene

Owen Greene is currently the Chair of the Centre for International Co-operation and Security (CICS) and an academic at the Department of Peace Studies (of which he was Research Director from 1994 – 2008), both at the University of Bradford.

In addition to his academic work and international policy advice and programme development activities, Owen has played leading roles in establishing and developing numerous international and UK NGOs. For several of these he is or has been a Board member. These include Saferworld (currently chairing); VERTIC (co-founder and presently Co-Chair); International Security Information Service-Europe (co-founder and also Deputy Chair up to January 2010); The International Action Network on Small Arms (co-founder and early Board Director); Scientists for Global Responsibility/ Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (board); The International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (co-founder and Deputy Chair); and Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (International Advisory Board).

Owen is an internationally recognised expert on issues such as conflict security and development interrelationships, conflict prevention, non-proliferation, arms control and arms reduction. He also works with international and regional agreements in the area of environment, security and conflict prevention and their development, implementation and effectiveness. He is in high demand as a consultant or special advisor for the UN, OSCE, EU, UK and many governments and multilateral policy negotiations and meetings on such issues.

Julian Rush

Now a science and environment broadcaster and writer, Julian Rush spent fifteen years as the Science & Environment Correspondent for Channel 4 News.

Julian began reporting on the environment for the BBC in the late 1980s, where he produced the BBC News coverage of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. His reporting has taken him from the Arctic to the Amazon and he has extensive experience of sustainability issues and policies, both nationally and internationally. He is particularly interested in the challenge of communicating the significance of climate change and its impacts on peoples around the world, and in the political, social and technological solutions for a global low carbon future.

Julian won the prestigious RTS Home News Awards in two consecutive years for his investigative reporting of the causes of the Paddington and Hatfield rail crashes. In 2004 he was short-listed again for an RTS award, this time for his exclusive report that exposed the government's “dodgy dossier” on Iraq, plagiarised from a PhD student’s thesis.

Jon Wonham

Jon Wonham currently is a member of marine advisory group of Videotel Marine International (VMI), a leading provider of distance learning programmes for seafarers. He also acts as a consultant on environmental content in the production of VMI computer-based training courses supplied to the worldwide shipping industry.

Jon has previously held several senior positions within the International Maritime Organization (IMO). In 1975 Jon was seconded from position of Deputy Head, Oil Pollution Division, UK Government's Warren Spring Laboratory to the Technical Co-operation Division of the IMO as marine pollution advisor.

In 1980 Jon became Deputy Director of the IMO’s Marine Environment Division where he was responsible for the MARPOL 73/78 and London1974 Conventions and co-operation with UNEP's Regional Seas Programme regarding protocols on emergency response to major pollution incidents. In the early nineties Jon represented IMO in drafting the Oceans chapter of Agenda 21 in preparation for 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and co-ordinated IMO's subsequent follow-up.

In 1995 Jon was appointed to the Chair in International Transport at Cardiff University. He was designated Emeritus Professor by the university in 2002.

Jon Wonham is author of numerous papers, particularly on issues related to marine environment protection.

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EXPERT GROUP

Catherine Redgwell (Chair)

Catherine Redgwell is Professor of International Law at University College London and served as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Laws from 2004-2006. She joined the Faculty in January 2004 from the University of Oxford, where she was a Reader in Public International Law from 2000 and University Lecturer in Public International Law from 1999. 

Catherine is a member of the Academic Advisory Group (AAG) of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law of the International Bar Association, and has also served on its steering committee for a number of years. She is also a member of the Council of the British Branch of the International Law Association, and of the Public International Law Advisory Board of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. 

In addition to serving as joint general editor and chair of the editorial board of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Catherine is on the editorial advisory boards of a number of international publications including the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, Environmental Liability, and the Singapore Yearbook of International Law.

Catherine’s research interests fall broadly within the public international field, including international energy law and international environmental law. Current environmental research includes completion of the co-authored second edition of Lyster’s International Wildlife Law (CUP, 2008) and of the co-authored third edition of Birnie & Boyle’s International Law & the Environment (OUP, 2008).
 

Amanda Byer

Amanda has worked as an environmental consultant both in her home Grenada and other countries in the Caribbean for various organisations and in the UN system. She now specialises in international environmental law. 

Amanda has also served as a member of Grenada's delegation to the UNFCCC inter-ministerial conference in Bonn and as the national co-ordinator for AOSIS (Grenada's term as AOSIS chair ended in 2011). She had the overall responsibility for assessing MEA compliance in Grenada and building capacity to improve the national development planning process.

Amanda graduated with a LLM in International Environmental Law from UCL, has an MSc and an LLB from the University of the West Indies, and studied development economics at Sarah Lawrence College.
 
 

Clare Coffey

Clare is currently Policy Advisor (Biofuels) at ActionAid UK and Senior Advisor at the Institute for European Environmental Policy.

She has a long track record working across a wide range of EU environmental policy issues, including fisheries, biodiversity, budgets and sustainable development. Within that context, she worked both as an advocate herself and as an advisor to major European non-governmental organisations, to support their advocacy and campaign work.

Between 2005 and 2011, Clare was working in Cameroon, Central Africa, in support of greater civil society engagement in policy advocacy. Having initially taken up a volunteering position with VSO, she then worked for the German development service, now known as GIZ.

Clare has a law degree from the London School of Economics and a post graduate diploma in environmental protection (University College Salford).
 

Lorenzo Cotula

Dr Lorenzo Cotula is a senior researcher in ‘law and sustainable development’ at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), a policy research institute based in London.

At IIED, Lorenzo leads work on land rights and on natural resource investment. He has published extensively on agricultural investments in the global South, particularly Africa, and on the national, international and contractual legal frameworks that regulate investment in the natural resource sector. Besides a wide range of UN and think-tank reports, this includes the book Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World: Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law. Lorenzo also steers ‘Legal tools for citizen empowerment’, a project to strengthen local capacity to exercise rights and get a better deal from natural resource investment in Africa.

Before joining IIED in 2002, Lorenzo worked on several assignments with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. He holds a Law Degree (cum laude) from the University “La Sapienza” of Rome, an MSc in Development Studies (Distinction) from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in Law from the University of Edinburgh.

Emily Massawa

Emily has more than 25 years of extensive national and international experience working in the field of Multilateral Environmental Conventions. She was the lead negotiator and focal point for Kenya to the Climate Change discussions under UNFCCC. She coordinated the preparations for the Twelfth Conference of the Parties (COP-12) to UNFCCC. Emily also held several positions under the Kenya Government – the most recent being Deputy Director of Compliance and Enforcement in the National Environment Management Authority. 

Emily Massawa currently is the Team Leader Climate Change in the UNEP Regional Office for Africa in Nairobi, developing and formulating policies related to climate change adaptation. She also advises and provides technical assistance to various stakeholders (governmental and intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and the scientific communities) in the development and implementation of adaptation projects under the UNEP Climate Change Strategy.

Emily earned a Master of Science in Environmental Science Technology from Delft Netherlands and a Diploma in Environmental Management from Adelaide University.

Tony La Viña

Dr. Tony La Viña is a teacher, thinker, and lawyer. He is a social entrepreneur and an environmental, good governance, human rights and peace advocate. He is currently Dean of the Ateneo School of Government, taking this position in 2006 when he returned to the Philippines after an eight year stint in a Washington DC environmental think tank, the World Resources Institute (WRI). He was Undersecretary of Environment and Natural Resources in the Philippines from 1996-1998. Currently, Dean Tony is a negotiator for the Philippines in the climate change negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Dean Tony's expertise includes climate change, biodiversity, biosafety policy, genetic resources, mining, forestry and trade and environment. He is also an authority on a range of governance areas such as leadership, consensus building and negotiations, human rights, social accountability, and pubic ethics. He has written many books and articles in these topics and has also implemented many innovations in these fields.

Dean Tony obtained his Masters (LLM) and Doctorate in Law (JSD) from Yale Law School and his first degrees from the University of the Philippines (in law) and the Ateneo de Manila University (in philosophy). Aside from teaching at the Schools of Government and Law of Ateneo de Manila, he also teaches courses with the Environmental Science, Political Science and Philosophy Departments in the same university. In addition, he is also a professorial lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Law and the Philippine Judicial Academy. Dean Tony ranked third in the 1989 bar examinations.

 

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