Dr. Charlotte Streck (Germany), Ph.D. (Humboldt, Berlin), MSc (Regensburg / Freiburg im Breisgau), is Legal Research Fellow of the CISDL, and Director of Climate Focus, BV, an international climate change law and policy consulting firm. She is former Senior Legal Counsel with the World Bank, and editor, with Prof. D. Freestone, of Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms: Making Kyoto Work (Oxford University Press, 2005). Dr. Streck is one of the leading international legal experts in international climate change law, in emissions trading law and carbon finance transactions.

Her recent publications of note include: “Financial Instruments and Cooperation in Implementing International Agreements for the Global Environment” in Gerd Winder, ed., Environmental Governance (Columbia University Press, 2005 - forthcoming); “Governments and Policy Networks: Chances, Risks and a Missing Strategy” in Frank Wijnen, Kees Zoeteman, Jan Pieters, eds., A Handbook of Globalization and Environmental Policy (Cheltenham: Egward Elgar, 2005); “World Bank Carbon Finance Business: Contracts and Emission Reduction Purchase Transactions” in Charlotte Streck & David Freestone, eds., Legal Aspects of Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Mechanisms (Oxford University Press, 2005); “New Partnerships in Global Environmental Policy: The Clean Development Mechanism” (2004) The Journal of Environment and Development 13:3; “Global Public Policy Networks as Coalitions for Change” in D. Esty & M. Ivanova, eds., Global Environmental Governance, Options and Opportunities (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2002); and “The Clean Development Mechanism – a Playing Field For New Partnerships” in Frank Biermann, / Rainer Brohm, / Klaus Dingwerth, eds., Global Environmental Change and the Nation State: Proceedings of the 2001 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (Potsdam: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, 2002) at 266-273.”