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Mohamed Azouagh
mohamed.azouagh--at--free.fr
Program Manager, Climate
Change and Trade
EcoLomics International
Dr. jur. Mohamed Azouagh est un citoyen
Franco-Marocain. Il a obtenu une Licence en Droit public à la
Faculté de droit de Oujda (Maroc) en 1995, un DEA en Droit et
économie du développement à l'Institut du Droit de la Paix et du
Développement de Nice (France) en 1999, un Certificat en Droit
international à New York Hofstra University School of Law en 2001.
Enfin, un Doctorat en droit à l'Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
(France) en 2004. Sa thèse de Doctorat a essayé de démonter dans
quelle mesure les règles du GATT/OMC prennent en compte les intérêts
environnementaux. Dr. Azouagh a travaillé comme Conseiller pour la
Division du Commerce et Environnement (PNUE) à Genève, pour des
organismes publics français et pour des ONG œuvrant dans le
domaine de la protection de l'environnement et/ou des droits de
l'homme. En tant que membre du Groupement d'Etudes et de Recherches
en Droit International et Comparé (Nice) et au PNUE, Dr. Azouagh a
participé à plusieurs séminaires et colloques portant sur le
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Makane Moïse Mbengue
Makane.Mbengue--at--droit.unige.ch
Co-Editor, EcoLomic Policy and
Law
Scientific
Director, Global EcoLomics
Dr. jur.
Makane Moïse Mbengue, a native of Senegal, is presently a Fellow in the Global
Visitors Program of the New York University Law School, from
Sept. 2007 to June 2008. In 1997,
he received his LL.B. from the University Gaston Berger of
Saint-Louis (Senegal) in Public Law, in 1998 a Masters
degree, followed in 1999 by an LL.M. in Business and
Economic Law. 2001-2007 he was a Teaching Assistant
and Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of
Geneva. His doctoral research was devoted to the topic
of "Anticipation in International Law: A Legal Theory on
the Regulation of Environmental and Sanitary Risk". The
thesis explores new avenues such as e.g. the distinction
between scientific uncertainty and the insufficiency of
scientific evidence. Dr. Mbengue is also the author of a
number of articles in scientific journals and books on trade
and environment, on international dispute-settlement, on the
law of treaties, on the law of international watercourses
and on WTO law. He has been a consultant for the World Bank,
the World Health Organization, the Nile Basin Initiative and
the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.
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María Julia Oliva
mjuliaoliva--at--gmail.com
Co-Editor, EcoLomic Policy and
Law
Program
Director, Global EcoLomics
Ms.
Maria Julia Oliva
is Senior Programme Officer for Trade, Environment and
Natural Resources at the International Centre for Trade and
Sustainable Development (ICTSD). Previously, Ms. Oliva was
a researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of
Geneva, where she is also pursuing a PhD. Ms. Oliva also
worked as a legal consultant for the UNCTAD BioTrade
Facilitation Programme and served as the Director of the
Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development Project at
the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). She
sits on the Board of Directors of IP-Watch and is a member
of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. Ms. Oliva
earned an LLM Degree in Environmental Law from Northwestern
School of Law at Lewis and Clark College and a law degree at
the University of Mendoza in Argentina. |
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Urs P. Thomas
trade.env--at--EcoLomics-International.org
Editor, EcoLomic Policy and Law
and
EcoLomics Occasional Papers Series
Administrator and Publisher
Global EcoLomics and EcoLomics
International
Urs P. Thomas, PhD is a
research associate at the Faculty of Law of the University
of Geneva. Born in Zürich, he spent over twenty years in
Montréal. After fifteen years in international business, he
went back to school and obtained a BSc in Environmental
Biology and an MBA at Concordia University. Subsequently he
obtained a PhD
in Political Science at UQAM with a thesis on UNEP, focused
on its interorganizational relations. Ever
since he got involved in this research he worked in
international environmental affairs and in their
relationship with economic globalization. This work
has subsequently been focused on trade and environment studies
since 2000 at the University of Geneva's Law Faculty through
grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation and the
Réseau universitaire international de Genève.
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Noriko (Nikki) Yajima
Research Associate
EcoLomics International
Dr. Noriko Yajima is a native of Japan. In 2006, she obtained a PhD
in international relations/international law at the
University of Melbour, Australia with a thesis on “International
regulation of the environment: Conflicting approaches of the
World Trade Organization and
multilateral environmental agreements”.
The thesis analyzes the relationship between two different
sets of international law, i.e. the cases of the WTO and the
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Prior to her PhD studies,
she obtained a Masters degree at Bonn University, Australia
with associated research on sustainable development issues
at
Aalborg
University, Denmark in 2001. She also joined
a 1-year program at Shenzhen University, China, to study
policies of sustainable development in developing countries.
She has presented papers in several international academic
conferences in the field of trade and environment and has
also participated in meetings of international organizations
on food safety and biosafety. Subsequently she has
collaborated with academics in their work on international
standards of animals, plants and food.
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