Commission Chair. Dr. Christina Voigt is a renowned expert in international environmental law and professor at the University of Oslo. She is passionate about legal issues of climate change ...
WCEL Steering Committee Members

In accordance with the WCEL By-laws, the Steering Committee is responsible for formulating policy, procedures, and rules of WCEL, and for determining all programmes of the Commission.
Dr Christina VOIGT
Mr Ayman CHERKAOUI
Deputy Chair. Mr. Ayman Cherkaoui is the Coordinator for the Mohammed VI Prize for the Climate and Sustainable Development as well as Strategic Development Officer at the Mohammed VI Foundation for ...
Ms Marina Demaria Venâncio
Marina Venâncio is an environment and youth advocate, with over nine years of experience in the field of environmental law research and practice. She is currently working as a programme officer at the ...
Prof Denise ANTOLINI
Denise Antolini is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she served as the Associate Dean for Academic Aff airs from 2011 to 2019.
Mr James CAMERON
An award-winning recognised authority in the global climate change movement and a qualified Barrister with 30+ years’ experience, James serves on boards and advisory committees across financial, legal ...
Prof Lavanya RAJAMANI
Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of International Environmental Law at the Faculty of Lawl, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law at St Peter's College, Oxford. Lavanya ...
Dr Agnes MICHELOT
Agnès Michelot is a Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the Faculty of Law, Political Sciences and Management of the La Rochelle University (France). She specialises in international environmental law ...
Ms Nilufer ORAL
Dr. Nilufer Oral is a Professor of Law and Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore. she is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission and co-chair of the Study Group on ...
Mrs Elizabeth MREMA
Ms. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, is the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Ms. Mrema has worked with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) for over two decades and was the ...
Ms Claudia DE WINDT
Claudia S. de Windt. International lawyer from the Dominican Republic. Chief Executive and founder of The Inter-American Institute on Justice and Sustainability (IIJS). International environmental law ...
Ms Maria-Goreti MUAVESI
Ms Christina PAK
Christina specializes in international development finance, law and policy reform, dispute resolution and ESG standards and drives thought leadership on sustainable development issues. She is ...
Dr Patricia KAMERI-MBOTE
Patricia Kameri-Mbote is the Director of the Law Division, UNEP. She leads the Division charged with carrying out the functions of UNEP in the field of environmental law, governance, and related ...
Dr Alejandro IZA
Ex Officio. ALEJANDRO IZA, Head – Environmental Law Programme From a combined academic and practical background, Dr. Iza brings to IUCN a combination of expertise including a broad knowledge of ...
Prof Rose-Liza EISMA-OSORIO
Ex Officio.
Atty. Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio is a lecturer at the University of Cebu in the Philippines teaching environmental law, public and private international law, legal research and writing, and ...
Mrs Sandrine FRIEDLI CELA
Ex Officio. Sandrine Friedli Cela is IUCN’s Legal Adviser since January 2015 and is based at IUCN Headquarters in Switzerland. In her role, she provides legal advice to all components of IUCN and, in ...
Ms Sheila ABED
Chair Emeritus.
Sheila Abed is a Paraguayan lawyer. She served as Counselor of the Yacyreta Binational Hydropower Dam from 2016 to 2018 and as the Minister of Justice and Labor of the Republic of ...
Dr Parvez HASSAN
Chair Emeritus.
Dr. Parvez Hassan is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Former Chair, WCEL, 1990-1996, Dr. Hassan was awarded the Honorary Membership of IUCN in 2000. He has got a ...
Prof Antonio BENJAMIN
Chair Emeritus.
Appointed Justice of the National High Court of Brazil (STJ) in 2006 by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Professor Antonio Herman Benjamin was a career Assistant Attorney General ...
Prof Nicholas ROBINSON
Chair Emeritus.
Former Chair and Deputy Chair, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (member since 1972, after participating in the UN Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, for the ...
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