Elizabeth Maruma Mrema is the Director of the Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC), and has worked with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for over two decades. Prior to joining DELC in her current role in June 2014, she was the Deputy Director to the Division of Policy Implementation (DEPI) in charge of coordination, operations and programme delivery from 2012 and for one year, also serviced as Acting Director to the same Division. Elizabeth is a lawyer and career diplomat with LLB (Hons) from the University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, LLM from Dalhousie University, Canada and Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations and Diplomacy (Summa Cum Laude) from the Centre of Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. She has published several articles related to international environmental law, compliance and enforcement of conventions and developed, among others, a number of multilateral environmental agreements negotiation tools, handbooks and guidelines currently used by UNEP in its capacity building programmes.