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Powell Del Rosario is a lawyer, a professor of Environmental law at the Colegio Dela Purisima Concepcion in Roxas City, Philippines. He was a governance and legislative fellow of the US Department of State in May-June 2014 in Washington D.C., USA. He was also a Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) scholar to Japan in 2013 on a course of study in Rural Development.
Sonia Chand Sandhu, an environment engineer and climate resilience and sustainable development specialist, is senior advisor to ADB’s Vice President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development. Her experience in international development spans 25 years across ADB, World Bank (South Asia and Africa), and the private sector, covering multisector infrastructure operations.
John Boyd practiced administrative and treaty law in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the US Department of State from 1972 to 1980. He practiced administrative and multilateral finance law in the Office of the General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) from 1980 to 1999.
Gloria "Golly" Estenzo Ramos is the Country Leader of Oceana in the Philippines. Oceana Philippines (http://ph.oceana.org/) seeks to restore the health, richness, and abundance of the fisheries and work for its sustainable management.
Before joining Oceana in 2014, Atty. Ramos was a lawyer-advocate for the environment, women and children’s rights and good governance.
Atty. Mayo-Anda is an environmental attorney with over 25 years of field-based practice in environmental advocacy and community-based resource management work in the Philippines. She established the Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC) in1990, now one of the Philippine’s most active NGOs working to empower communities and local stakeholders to protect their natural resources. She is currently the Executive Director of ELAC.
Charito Sawali is a judge at the Municipal Circuit Trial Court in Malvar-Balete, Batangas in the Philippines.
Papers/Publications Published
- Constitutional Requirements on the Appointment to the Judiciary in the Social and Ethical Context at Iamure International Publication, 2014
Melanie Pimentel is a Senior State Solicitor at the Philippines Office of the Solicitor General. She specializes in Indigneous Peoples Rights Act, Fisheries Laws and Regulations, Land Titles and Deeds, and Public Interest Law and advocacy. She worked on cases against fisheries laws/policy, cases on revocation of income tax holiday incentive, cases for violation of COA rules and laws, tax cases, and cases defending the rights of indigenous peoples.
Charlo dela Costa Paredes works with courts and quasi-judicial bodies, and continues to learn from and share with the academe the lessons from the practice of law in upholding worthy causes for for environmental and social justice.
Japhet Masculino is currently a teacher of Natural Resources and Environmental Law at the University of Negros Occidental, Recoletos.
John Ray Libiran is a Professor at the University of the Cordilleras. He specializes in Indigenous Peoples, Mining Laws and Regulations, Biodiversity, and Climate Change.
Environmental Law and Policy Work
- Philippine delegate to SBSTTA in the Convention on Biological Diversity
Crafting of the NCIP Guidelines on Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)
Key Cases
- Cases on National Commission on Indigenous Peoples