Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, Senior Director at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, and Executive Secretary to the UNFCCC Climate Law & Governance Initiative. She is Full Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo, Canada, chairs several expert commissions and boards, and as former General Counsel to UN treaty bodies, advises countries on implementing climate change, biodiversity, natural resources, trade and investment accords to achieve global Sustainable Development Goals. She is also Fellow in Law and Director of Studies for Lucy Cavendish College leading research with the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at University of Cambridge, and laureate of HE CG Weeramantry International Justice, Justitia Regnorum Fundamentum, and other honours.