Councillor Biographies
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL); Senior Director, Sustainable Prosperity.
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). She also serves as senior legal advisor to the UN and countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia to implement sustainable development treaties on trade, investment, biodiversity and climate change, earning sixteen national commendations for her justice work. She holds a Lauterpacht Centre for International Law Fellowship at Cambridge University and has authored and edited fourteen books in four languages published by Oxford University Press, Kluwer Law International and others. She trains Supreme Court Judges and lectures at Oxford, Cambridge, McGill, Victoria and Chile law faculties, as well as for the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) in Rome. She serves on the Board of the International Law Association, chairs an international Union for Conservation of Nature’s expert group on trade and environment law and a post-WSSD Partnership in International Sustainable Development Law, and has founded nine other grassroots, national and international organizations.
