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Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Executive Secretary of the CLGI, has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Visiting Professorship award from Leverhulme Trust.
Professor Cordonier Segger is a full professor of international law at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, who also serves as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) CoP25 Climate Law & Governance Initiative, Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Chair of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative, and on the boards of the International Law Association of Canada and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) of Canada. She has published over 20 books and more than 120 articles and papers on law, policy and sustainability in six languages; founded several centres, law journals, institutions and networks; lectured in the Universities of McGill, Chile, Kisangani (DRC), Victoria and Montreal; chaired various international experts commissions, associations and boards; and served as senior legal advisor for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, the UNFCCC Presidency, and the International Development Law Organization.
The Visiting Professorship is awarded by the University of Cambridge, whose Bennett Institute, in partnership with colleagues from other faculties and departments, nominated Professor Cordonier Segger for the award.
By delivering an integrated programme of six high-profile Leverhulme Lectures in Oxford, Cambridge, London, Norwich and other venues; hosting skills transfer and mentorship workshops; co-leading research case study seminars backed by world-class expertise; co-hosting public law and policy dialogues on climate change and the world’s Sustainable Development Goals; and helping to found a UK Sustainable Development Solutions Network; the senior international Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor will substantially contribute to building new research partnerships, dialogue and expertise with the University of Cambridge’s Bennett Institute on Public Policy, the Department of Land Economy, and the Faculty of Law, among others, helping to incentivize, engage, achieve and measure progress on the global response to climate change and other key SDGs for present and future generations.
“It is wonderful to see Prof. Cordonier Segger being recognized in this way. Her leadership on sustainability and climate change law and governance is a gift to Canada and the world.” Dean Jean Andrey, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada
