Staff profile

Elisa Morgera has published extensively on international law on human rights and the environment, with a focus on the climate-nature and climate-ocean nexus, the human right to science, as well as the human rights of small-scale fishers, Indigenous Peoples, and children. 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, Prof 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.

Prof Morgera is part-time Professor in International and European Union Environmental Law at the University of Eastern Finland. Previously, she worked with the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the United Nations Development Programme in Barbados. She has collaborated with the United Nations and other international organizations as consultant and independent expert; and advised governments and civil society in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific.

Prof. 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.

• human rights and the environment
• the human right to science
• children's human right to a healthy environment
• the human rights of small-scale fishers
• the human rights of Indigenous Peoples
• human rights at the climate-biodiversity and climate-ocean nexus
• business responsibility to respect human rights
• international principle and standards of equity among and within States, based on international environmental and human rights law.