Dr. Alhagi Marong, D.C.L., LL.M. (McGill), LL.B & B.L. (Sierra Leone) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). Dr. Marong is currently Co-Director for Africa Programs at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He taught at the Department of Law, American University of Armenia and serving as Senior State Counsel at the Ministry of Justice in Gambia and Legal Adviser for the National Environment Agency of The Gambia. He has published on norm creation in international and the confluence of international business regimes and the confluence of social and environmental concerns in Africa. Dr Marong also worked with the Law Reform Commission of The Gambia, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, and studied at the International Development Law Organisation, in Rome. He has held the McGill Greenshields Fellowship, the McGill Major Fellowship, and a Commonwealth Scholarship.