Webinar: The Road Ahead for Global Climate Action Post-COP30: A Cross-Regional Perspective

                  

Elisa Morgera is a Professor of International Law and Sustainability at Durham University (UK) and Professor in International and European Union Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Previously, she worked with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Italy and the United Nations Development Programme in Barbados; and continued to collaborate with the United Nations and other international organizations as consultant and independent expert. She advised governments and civil society in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific. Ms. Morgera has published extensively on human rights and the environment, the human right to science, as well as the human rights of small-scale fishers, Indigenous Peoples, and children, at the climate-biodiversity and climate-ocean nexus. She has also published on business responsibility to respect human rights, as well as on the international principle and standards of equity among and within States, based on international environmental and human rights law. From 2019 to 2024, Ms Morgera directed the One Ocean Hub, a Global North/South research collaboration on human rights and the ocean, which connected natural and social scientists, legal experts, artists, human rights holders and defenders, to support fair, inclusive and transformative decision-making. Ms. Morgera holds a Law degree from the University of Trieste, Italy; a Master of Laws in Environmental Law from University College London; a Master of Research and a PhD in International Law from the European University Institute, Italy. She speaks English, French and Spanish, and some Portuguese.

Danielle is a member of the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Policy Panel, Singapore Mediation Centre and a member of the International Law Association (ILA) Business and Human Rights Committee. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore where she leads on climate change law and policy issues as well as cyber law and governance issues. Danielle is concurrently a Senior Advisor with DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, and a Consultant with KGP Legal LLC (member of Inter-Asia Law Alliance). Danielle’s experience spans across a range of public international law issues including trade and investment, environment and climate change, international security including international cyber norms, human rights, law of the sea and sanctions and compliance matters. She has advised and represented the Singapore Government at international negotiations and dispute resolution. Danielle was lead counsel in multiple negotiations at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations. In the same capacity, she also helmed recent UNFCC and Paris Agreement climate change talks and a WTO panel proceeding (as a third party). In addition, she was an advisor to the Singapore government in the Case concerning Land Reclamation by Singapore in and around the Straits of Johor (Malaysia v Singapore) before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Danielle was formerly the Deputy Director-General of the International Affairs Division of the Singapore Attorney-General’s Chambers and Deputy Chief Executive/Deputy Director-General of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. She was also a formerly a District Judge; Justices’ Law Clerk and criminal prosecutor. She was a Council Member of the Singapore branch of the ILA between 1st Jan 2017 and 31 Dec 2023.