Center for International Environmental Law

The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) "is a nonprofit organization working to use international law and institutions to protect the environment, promote human health, and ensure a just and sustainable society. We provide a wide range of services including legal counsel, policy research, analysis, advocacy, education, training, and capacity building." 


 * Former Founding President - Durwood J. Zaelke
 * President - Daniel B. Magraw, Jr. other staff
 * Former Executive Director, David Hunter
 * Owen J. Lynch - "currently manages the Law and Communities Program"

Trustees
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 * Frederick R. Anderson, Chair
 * Brennan Van Dyke, Vice Chair
 * Harry G. Barnes, Jr.
 * Kenneth Berlin
 * Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
 * Delphine Djiraibe
 * Peter Eigen
 * Donald Kaniaru
 * Antonio G. M. La Vina
 * Barbara Shaw
 * Alberto Szekely
 * Richard Tompkins
 * Jack Vanderryn

Advisory Board
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 * John H. Adams - Founding Director, Natural Resources Defense Council
 * Michael P. Allen - Senior Counsel, Sprint Nextel
 * Laurence Boisson de Chazournes - Professor, Director of Department of Public International Law & International Organization, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva
 * Charles E. di Leva - Chief Counsel, Environmentally & Socially Sustainable Development and International Law Practice Group, The World Bank
 * Malgosia A. Fitzmaurice - Professor, University of London Queen Mary College and Westfield College
 * Irving L. Fuller - President, Fuller International Associates
 * Lynn Goldman - Pediatrician and Professor, School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
 * Claudio Grossman - Dean, Washington College of Law, The American University and President, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
 * Paul E.. Hagen - Attorney, Beveridge & Diamond PC
 * David F. Hales - President, College of the Atlantic, ME
 * Scott A. Hajost - Executive Director, U.S. Office of The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
 * Jennifer Haverkamp - Consultant, Silver Spring, MD
 * Sebia Hawkins - Development Associate, Association for the International Relations Center (IRC)
 * Calestous Juma - Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director, Science, Technology and Globalization Project, Harvard University
 * Anne R. Karpuscinski - Director, Institute for Social, Economic, and Ecological Sustainability, University of Minnesota
 * Lal Kurukulasuriya - Founder, Centre for Environmental Research, Training and Information (CERTI) and former Chief, Environmental Law Branch, Division of Policy Development & Law, United Nations Environment Programme
 * Jonathan Lash - President, World Resources Institute
 * Michael Lipsett, M.D. - Chief, Exposure Assessment Section, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, California Department of Health Services and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco
 * Gerhard Loibl - Professor, Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
 * Wangari Maathai - Founder, The Greenbelt Movement and Assistant Minister for Environment, Natural Resources and Wildlife, Kenya Parliament and Nobel Peace Laureate 2004 (Nairobi)
 * Stephen C. McCaffrey - Professor, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific
 * Ignacia S. Moreno - Attorney, Spriggs & Hollingsworth
 * Ambassador Ambler H. Moss, Jr. - Dean, University of Miami Graduate School of International Studies and former Ambassador to Panama
 * Antonio A. Oposa, Jr. - Principal, Oposa Law Office and Special Counsel, pro bono, to the Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippine Government
 * Rt. Hon. Sir Geoffrey Palmer - President, Law Commission, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and Minister for the Environment
 * Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao - Member, International Law Commission, Senior Consultant WIPO, Switzerland
 * Iwona Rummel-Bulska - Principal Legal Officer and Chief, United Nations Environment Programme, Kenya
 * James Gustave Speth - Dean and Professor, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
 * Christopher Stone - Professor, University of Southern California Los Angeles
 * Robert M. Sussman - Attorney, Latham & Watkins
 * Jon Van Dyke - Professor, University of Hawaii Law School at Manoa
 * Perry Wallace - Professor, Washington College of Law, The American University
 * Sheila Watt-Cloutier - Inuit leader, former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Canada, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2006
 * Jacob Werksman - Professor, New York University, Program Director, Institutions and Governance, World Resources Institute, former Senior Advisor to the Global Inclusion Program of the Ford Foundation
 * Terry F. Young - Senior Consulting Scientist, Environmental Defense
 * Tatiana R. Zaharchenko - Scholar in Residence, Environmental Law Institute

Contact

 * Web: http://www.ciel.org