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Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, MEM (Yale), BCL & LL.B (McGill) is a leading international legal scholar in the field of sustainable development. She is currently Senior Director, Research for Sustainable Prosperity, a green economy policy research network (on interchange from the Government of Canada). She also serves as Director of the CISDL; as a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) at Cambridge University Faculty of Law in the United Kingdom; and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Chile Faculty of Law, in a pro bono academic capacity. At the CISDL, she serves as a mentor for CISDL lawyers and fellows, writes and edits international law research and publications, trains senior officials and high court judges, and provides international legal advice, through the United Nations, to countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia on the implementation of sustainable development accords, including trade and investment agreements, the Cartegena Protocol and the Kyoto Protocol. Prof Cordonier Segger has authored over 50 papers, and has published 14 books on sustainable development law and policy in three languages, including Sustainable Development Law: Principles, Practices and Prospects (Oxford University Press, 2004) with A. Khalfan; Sustainable Justice: Reconciling Economic, Social and Environmental Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2004) with former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice, Judge C. G. Weeramantry; Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International, 2005) with Dr. M. Gehring; and Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer Law International, 2010 fc) with Dr. M. Gehring and Prof A Newcombe. Also in her personal capacity with the CISDL, she serves on the board of the International Law Association (Canadian Branch), as an expert on the International Law Association's (ILA) Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development, as a councillor of the World Future Council, and as a chair of the IUCN Environmental Law Commissions' Expert Group on Trade and Environment Law. She chairs a joint CISDL - ILA - IDLO Partnership on International Law for Sustainable Development that was launched at the 2002 World Summit for Sustainable Development, is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, is profiled by the United Nations Environment Programme in their global 'Who's Who of Women and the Environment', has twice been appointed to an AVINA Fellowship, and has held several valuable international awards including a Chevening and a SSHRC Fellowship for a Ph.D. in International Law at Oxford University (Exeter College). In her previous position, she led International Affairs at Canada's Ministry of Natural Resources, acting often as Director General for External Affairs. For Natural Resources Canada, she served on the Advisory Board of the International Trade and Investment Centre (Conference Board of Canada), on the Management Committee of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Trust Fund and the Governance Committee of the EITI Board, and on the Board of the UN's International Panel on Sustainable Resource Management. She has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Victoria Law Faculty and at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO); coordinated international law seminars at Oxford University; taught international environmental law at the CERIUM, University of Montreal; directed a collaborative Americas Portfolio for the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD); and served as a Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, UK; among other positions. She is fluent in French, English and Spanish, and also speaks German and Portuguese.
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