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Abigail Erikson is a clinical social worker who has dedicated her professional career towards improving the lives of women and girls. Abigail has 20 years of experience working on sexual and reproductive health and rights, counselling and psychosocial support in the health and social services sector, and global efforts to prevent violence against women and girls in complex settings.
Dato’ Shyamala Alagendra is a Malaysian lawyer with over 24 years’ experience as a domestic and international criminal lawyer. She is presently the Gender Advisor to the newly established United Nations (UN) Sri Lanka accountability team and, prior to this, was the Gender and Child Rights Advisor to the United Nations Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar.
Dr. Emma Carmody is an international environmental lawyer with particular expertise in water law and policy. She has extensive experience advising nation states, government ministries, First Nations peoples, farmers and peak conservation organisations in Australia and abroad. Dr Carmody is the Managing Lawyer of the Freshwater Program at the Environmental Defenders Office and sole Legal Advisor to the Secretariat of, and 172 Contracting Parties to, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.
Amanda Kennedy is admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia. She joined the Queensland University of Technology as a Professor of Law in 2019. Amanda’s research interests include land use law and conflict, environmental justice, and effective systems for natural resource governance. She has conducted funded research on these issues under Australian Research Council grants, and has published her work in both domestic and international journals and books.
Dr. Shawkat Alam is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University. Prof Alam has previously taught in the Law School at Dhaka University and Rajshahi University in Bangladesh. He holds an LLB (Honours) from Rajshahi University, LLM from Dhaka University and PhD from Macquarie University.
Karen Bubna-Litic is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of South Australia (UNISA)and a member of the IUCN Commission of Environmental Law. Karen was an inaugural member of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law’s Teaching and Capacity Building Committee from 2007-2014 and has served as co-chair with Associate Professor Lye Lin Heng from 2008-2011. While co-chair, Karen co-wrote the initial version of the TTT programme with Professors Ben Boer and Rob Fowler.
Ben Boer began teaching Environmental Law in 1979 at Macquarie University, in Sydney. He was Professor in Environmental Law, University of Sydney between 1992 -2008.
Together with colleagues at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Adelaide, he founded of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law; at Sydney Law School this body is now called the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law.
Donna Craig is a specialist in international, comparative and national environmental law and policy at Western Sydney University. She was one of the earliest academics to specialise in environmental law (from 1976) and has researched and taught across a wide range of environmental law areas and jurisdictions.
Rob Fowler has been involved for over forty years in the field of environmental law, beginning at the Law School at the University of Adelaide in 1975. Whilst there, he co-founded the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (ACEL) and also served as Dean of the Law School from 1995-98. In 2000, he was appointed to a Chair in International Environmental Law at the University of South Australia. Since retiring from this position in 2008, Rob has held an Adjunct Chair in the Law School at UniSA.
Volker Mauerhofer holds Master degrees in Laws (1989-93), Natural Sciences (1992-99) and Ecological Economics (2002-03) and a Doctorate (1993-98) in Law. He is former Attorney-at-Law and former Senior Research Fellow as well as Visiting Professor at United Nations University/Japan after having taught and researched there for over two years. Currently he is a Lecturer at the University of Vienna, holding visiting researcher positions at Meiji University and Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan.