Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger

Professor Dr Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger FRSC FRSA WIJA, PhD (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL & LLB (McGill), BA Hons (Carl/UVic) is a world-leading scholar and jurist in sustainable development law and governance. She holds the Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy in the University of Cambridge where she is law fellow, director of studies and DemEd Global programme director in Lucy Cavendish College. Further, as senior director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, executive secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and chair of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative, she lectures and leads global collaborations for climate law and governance, biodiversity and natural resources stewardship, human rights, indigenous peoples rights and future generations, trade and investment law and other international law contributing to the global Sustainable Development Goals.

With PhDs from both Cambridge and Oxford, and both civil and common law degrees, she has published over 26 books and over 160 papers in five languages, edits a series of volumes on international treaty regimes for sustainable development with Cambridge University Press, and serves on editorial/review boards of five international law journals, having co-founded three. She also serves as president of the Sustainable Development Governance and Law Association (SDGLA); vice-president of the International Law Association (ILA) of Canada; chair of the ILA Committee on International Law for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and trustee of the Global Youth Council on Science, Law and Sustainability, among other commitments. A Fellow of Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Social Sciences) and Fellow of Royal Society of the Arts in the UK, she holds over two decades of sustainable development treaty negotiations, implementation and engagement experience spanning over 80 countries as senior advisor to UN treaty negotiations, international organizations and countries worldwide. She is laureate of the prestigious HE Judge CG Weeramantry International Justice Award (WIJA), and has also been awarded the Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum Medal, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, Climate Law and Governance Global Leadership Award and UNFCCC High-Level Champions Climate Impact Maker, among other international honours.