GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM on “JUDICIARY and the ENVIRONMENT: ADJUDICATING OUR FUTURE” August 23-24, 2018

GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON “JUDICIARY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: ADJUDICATING OUR FUTURE” August 23-24, 2018

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

LUIS ALMAGRO is a Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat, politician, and currently serving as the 10th Secretary General of the Organization of American States. Prior to serving as the Secretary General, Mr. Almagro served as the Foreign Minister of Uruguay, a Senator in the country’s General Assembly, an Ambassador to China, and a senior diplomat in Uruguay’s foreign ministry, including its embassies in Germany and Iran. As Foreign Minister for President José Mujica, he defined several emblematic initiatives that put his country on the global map, from receiving former prisoners from Guantanamo, to welcoming dozens of Syrian families who had been victims of the country´s conflict, to building support in the United Nations so that, beginning in 2016, Uruguay could become part of the Security Council.

DENISE E. ANTOLINI has served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the William S. Richardson School of Law since 2011, is former Director of the Environmental Law Program, and has been a member of the Law School faculty since 1996. She is the Deputy Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Dean Antolini attended Princeton University for her undergraduate degree, and obtained a Master’s in Public Policy at UC Berkeley and concurrently a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, where she was editor-in-chief of Ecology Law Quarterly. After a two-year federal district court clerkship in Washington, D.C., she spent eight years practicing public interest law with the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice) in Seattle and Honolulu, serving as Managing Attorney of the Honolulu office until 1996. She is currently serving as an elected member of the IUCN U.S. National Committee Executive Committee.

ANTONIO H. BENJAMIN is a Justice of the High Court of Brazil, and a global leader in the environmental law community. Justice Benjamin is the Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law, and an OAS Goodwill Ambassador for Environmental Justice. He was recently sworn in as Director of the National Judicial School of Brazil. He served as Assistant Attorney General of the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo for 20 years and served as head of the Environmental Protection Division for several years. Justice Benjamin was the founding President of both the Brazilian Consumer Law and Policy Institute and the Law for a Green Planet Institute, and is also a member of the UN Secretary General Expert Group on Crimes against the Environment and Secretary General of the International Advisory Council for Environmental Justice of UN Environment. He is a member of the Interim Governing Committee of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment.

FRUZSINA BÖGÖS is an administrative judge at the Budapest-Capital Administrative and Labour Court in Hungary, specializing in environmental cases. She is the leader of the Working Group for Environmental Issues at the Budapest-Capital Administrative and Labour Court. Since 2015 Ms. Bögös has been working as the secretary-general of the European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment where she has been a member since 2012. Judge Bögös is also a founding member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment.

JONATHAN Z. CANNON is director of the University of Virginia Law School's Environmental and Land Use Law Program, a Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, and a Hunton & Williams Professor of law. He joined the Law School faculty in 1998 from the Environmental Protection Agency, where he served as general counsel (1995- 98) and assistant administrator for administration and resources management (1992-95). Prior to his work with the EPA, Cannon was in the private practice of environmental law; served as an adjunct professor at Washington and Lee Law School, where he taught environmental law; and was a lecturer at the Law School. Cannon is the author of the new book, "Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court."

JEFF CRABTREE grew up in Hawaii and graduated from Punahou School. After college (Williams College and University of San Francisco), law school (New York University, Root-Tilden Scholar) and working several years on the mainland in Boston and New York City, he returned home to Honolulu and practiced civil litigation from 1983 to 2014. In 2014, Mr. Crabtree was nominated and then confirmed to be a circuit court judge. As of April 2017, Judge Crabtree is assigned to the Civil Litigation/ Division. Effective August 1, 2017, Judge Crabtree was designated as the Senior Environmental Court Judge for the First Circuit. He is a member of ELI´s Board of Directors

CLAUDIA S. DE WINDT is an international environmental lawyer and expert in political sciences from the Dominican Republic. In the Organization of American States for over a decade, she led the Department of Sustainable Development initiatives on Environmental Law, Policy and Good Governance until recently joining the Secretariat for Multidimensional Security. A graduate of Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) and a Master of Laws in International Legal Studies from American University, Washington College of Law. Prior to joining the OAS in 2001, Dr de Windt practiced banking, maritime, corporate and investment law with the firm Headrick, Rizik Alvarez & Fernández. She is a Judicial Interpreter of the Court of First Instance of Santo Domingo, a member of the roster of experts in environmental law of the EU-Central America Association Agreement, a member of the UN Environment Expert Group on Crimes that have serious impacts on the Environment and a member of the Steering Committee of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (WCEL-IUCN).

EVA DUER is the Legal Officer and Team Leader in the field of Knowledge Management and Environmental Law at UN Environment, and develops cost effective capacity building tools for environmental lawyers around the world. Previously, she provided technical assistance and capacity building on environmental law at the national level, including support to the development of climate change adaptation legislation for countries in Asia and development of legislation for the clean development mechanism of the Kyoto protocol for the Government of Mali. She also held the position of Special Assistant to the Director of the Division of Regional Cooperation.

SYLVIA EARLE is a marine biologist, explorer, author, and lecturer. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1988. Sylvia Earle was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and was named by Time Magazine as its first Hero for the Planet in 1998. She is also part of the group Ocean Elders, which is dedicated to protecting the ocean and its wildlife. Dr. Earle was the Curator of Phycology at the California Academy of Sciences and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, Radcliffe Institute Scholar and research fellow at Harvard University. In 1992, Dr. Earle founded Deep Ocean Exploration and Research to further advance marine engineering.

SCOTT FULTON is the President of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). Prior to his work at the ELI, Mr. Fulton was a Principal at the environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., and served as General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Mr. Fulton has also served as the Acting EPA Deputy Administrator, head of the EPA’s Office of International Affairs, Judge on the Environmental Appeals Board, and head of the Agency’s enforcement program. He served as Assistant Chief of the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Environment and Natural Resources Division. He serves as a member of the United Nations Advisory Council on Environmental Justice and teaches International Environmental Governance as an adjunct professor at the George Washington School of Law.

MICHAEL B. GERRARD is an Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School, teaches courses on environmental law, climate change law, and energy regulation, and is Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. He also chairs the faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Previously, he practiced environmental law in New York, most recently as partner in charge of the New York office of the firm now known as Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. Upon joining the Law School faculty in 2009, he became the firm’s senior counsel. Professor Gerrard was the 2004- 2005 chair of the American Bar Association’s 10,000-member section of environment, energy, and resources. He also chaired the New York City Bar

Association’s executive committee and the New York State Bar Association’s environmental law section. He earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from the NYU School of Law.

ALFREDO GUTIERREZ ORTIZ-MENA is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico, and an OAS Goodwill Ambassador for Environmental Justice. He is a graduate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and have an LLM in International Tax Certificate from Harvard University. Justice Gutierrez Ortiz-Mena has also worked for a number of international law firms, served in the Ministry of Finance, and worked as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue and Customs Services.

MICHAEL HANTKE is the Chief Justice of Chile’s Third Environmental Court. He is a Chilean lawyer with expertise in water and environmental law, governance, public policy, and economic and antitrust regulation. Justice Hantke, has more than 20 years of experience as an academic, regulator, former United Nations staff member, international consultant, and judge. Justice Hantke has also a long standing academic professional background as a professor on water law, environmental litigation, and economic regulations, among other topics. He has worked as consultant for UNDP, ECLAC, UNCTAD, TNC, WWF, and other international organizations.

DAVID HUNTER is a Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Environmental and Energy Law at American University’s Washington College of Law. Professor Hunter was previously Executive Director of the Center for International Environmental Law and Executive Director of WaterWatch of Oregon. He has consulted on the development of environmental and social standards at several international organizations, and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the Bank Information Center, the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide-US, EarthRights International, and the Project on Government Oversight. Professor Hunter is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a B.A. in economics and political science, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, and has authored numerous articles and books on international environmental law and associated topics.

ARNOLD KREILHUBER is the Deputy Director of UN Environment’s Law Division and an expert in international environmental law and international affairs. Dr. Kreilhuber, led the planning and organization of the UN Environent’s World Congress on Justice Law and Governance for Environmental Sustainability and has also served as UN Environments legal counsel and Secretary for the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA). Previously, Dr. Kreilhuber has worked for Government institutions such as the Foreign Ministry of Austria and contributed to the development of policy and laws in his native Austrian and the European Union. He holds a Doctorate Degree in international law as well as a Master’s Degree in International Relations.

SAMUEL LIZAMA is the Chief Justice of the Second Instance Environmental Chamber of El Salvador. He is a graduate in Juridical Sciences from the University of El Salvador and has a Master Degree in Judicial Studies from the Catholic University in El Salvador; a Master Degree in Constitutional Criminal Law from the Simeón Cañas University and has completed postgraduate studies in Legal Environmental, Flora, Fauna, Land Use Planning and Historic Heritage Protection, among other academic studies. Justice Lizama is author of multiple publications in several topics, including criminal environmental law, social and economic rights and human rights.

RICARDO LORENZETTI is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Argentina since 2007. Justice Lorenzetti is a Doctor in Legal and Social Sciences, with a degree from the National University of the Littoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. In June 2012 he served as the Co-Chair of the UN Environment Programme World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability, and is currently an OAS Goodwill Ambassador for Environmental Justice. He is also a member of the Interim Governing Committee of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment. Justice Lorenzetti has delivered hundreds of lectures, has published over 30 books in Argentina and internationally, as well as many articles in special publications.

THOMAS LOVEJOY holds the position of Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation, and as a University Professor in the Environmental Science and Policy Department at George Mason University. He previously served as President and as Biodiversity Chair of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. His research focus is in the application of ecological science to conservation policy, by which he helped bring attention to the issue of tropical deforestation, publishing the first estimate of global extinction rates in the Global 2000 Report to the President. Professor Lovejoy has served as the Senior Advisor to the President of the United Nations Foundation, the Chief Biodiversity Advisor to the World Bank, Executive Vice President of the World Wildlife Fund-U.S., and served on multiple advisory councils for U.S. Presidents. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from Yale University.

RAGNHILD NOER is a Justice of the Norwegian Supreme Court since 2010. Her previous professional background includes, inter alia, serving as Senior Executive Officer in the Ministry of Justice of Norway, lawyer of the Attorney General’s Office, Senior Legal Advisor in the Ministry of the Environment, and at the Court of Appeals Justice at the Borgarting Court of Appeals. Justice Noer is a member of the European Union Forum of Judges for the Environment, and a member of the Interim Governing Committee of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment.

MAUREEN O’CONNOR is the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court, and the first woman in history to lead the Ohio judicial branch. Prior to serving as Chief Justice, she worked as a private lawyer, magistrate, common pleas court judge, and prosecutor. Justice O´Connor have a bachelor degree in arts from Seton Hill College and a law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

JOHN PENDERGRASS leads the Research and Policy Division at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), as well as the Institute´s Educational Programs and Publications Division. John has researched and written on a broad range of legal and policy issues focusing on what works in practice and how to improve the implementation of law. He was also the founder of ELI´s Judicial Education Program. Mr. Pendergrass obtained his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1979, and holds a B.S. in environmental science from Michigan State University.

MARK E. RECKTENWALD was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii in September of 2010, and joined the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in 2009. Prior to the Supreme Court, he has served as Chief Justice of the Intermediate Court of Appeals, director of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, and as an attorney in private practice. Justice Recktenwald earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, and his law degree from the University of Chicago.

PAUL L. REIBER is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont. He is the President of the Conference of Chief Justices. Prior to joining the Supreme Court, Justice Reiber worked in private practice as a partner in the law firm Kenlan, Schweibert, & Facey. Justice Reiber earned his undergraduate degree from Hampden-Sydney College and his J.D. from Suffolk Law School.

JENNY RIVERA is an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Judge Rivera has spent her entire professional career in public service. She clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, on the Southern District of New York, and also clerked in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals Pro Se Law Clerk's Office. She worked for the Legal Aid Society's Homeless Family Rights Project, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (renamed Latino Justice PRLDEF), and was appointed by the New York State Attorney General as Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights. Prior to her appointment, she was a tenured faculty member of the City University of New York School of Law, where she founded and served as Director of the Law School's Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality. She graduated from Princeton University, received her J.D. from New York University and her LL.M. from Columbia University.

RONALD B. ROBIE is an Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. Previously, Justice Robie served as Municipal Judge in the Sacramento Judicial District, a Judge in the Superior Court of California, and an Associate Justice Pro Tem for the California Supreme Court. Justice Robie also was an Attorney Member and Vice Chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, and the Director of the California Department of Water Resources. He attended the University of California Berkeley for his B.A., and the McGeorge School of Law of the Univeristy of the Pacific for his J.D.

NICHOLAS A. ROBINSON is a Professor of Law of Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University. He has developed environmental law since being named to the Legal Advisory Committee of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, and has practiced environmental law in firms for municipalities and as general counsel of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Professor Robinson drafted New York’s wetlands and wild bird laws, and was inaugurated as the first chairman of both the statutory Freshwater Wetlands Appeals Board and Greenway Heritage Conservancy for the Hudson River Valley. He has served as legal advisor and chairman of the World Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN-WCEL), and founded Pace’s environmental law programs, currently teaching a number of environmental law courses. He earned his B.A. from Brown University and his law degree from Columbia University School of Law.

MARIA EUGENIA SANDOVAL GOUET is a justice of the Supreme Court of Chile. Previously, Justice Sandoval Gouet served as a Judge on the Court of Appeals of San Miguel, and practiced tax law for almost 30 years. She earned a law degree from the University of Concepción.

KATHIE A. STEIN is a Judge at the Environmental Appeals Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Prior to her appointment to the Board in 1996 and she served as Director of EPA’s Air Enforcement Division, among other positions with the Agency. Before joining EPA, she served as Senior Counsel with the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown, and her B.A. from Oberlin College.

LUIS ARMANDO TOLOSA VILLABONA is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Colombia. Previously, he was a judge of the Superior Courts of Rioacha and Tunja. He is a graduate in Education, Philosophy and Letters, and Master in Procedural Law and in Teaching Problematic Models. Furthermore, he is a specialist in Public Law, Family Law Institutions, Private Economic Law, Constitutional Procedural Law, Commercial Law, Criminal Law and Criminology. Currently, he is also professor at the University College of Rosario in the area of Civil Law.

FARAH DIVA URRUTIA serves as the Secretary of Multidimensional Security at the Organization of American States. Born in Panama City, Panama, Ms. Urrutia came to the OAS following a distinguished career in public service in her country, including positions as Director of International Legal Affairs and Treaties and Acting Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Urrutia served as the Principal Representative of the Government of Panama to the Permanent Council of the OAS, the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Her career also includes positions as Deputy Director of the Legal Office to the National Authority for Electricity, Water and Telecommunications (2010-2014), Senior Legal Advisor to the National Authority for Antitrust and Consumer Protection and, Consultant of the Strategic Plan for the Implementation of the Accusatory Criminal System (2010). Ms Urrutia holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Carlos III University of Madrid. She is an Attorney. She was Professor of Antitrust Law and Consumer Protection at the Santa Maria La Antigua University and Professor of Public Service Law at the Latin University (Panama).

DR. EMMANUEL UGIRASHEBUJA currently serves as the fourth President of the East African Court of Justice. Before his appointment as President of the EACJ, Justice Ugirashebuja served as a Judge of Appeal and as a Dean of the University of Rwanda Law School. He has also been a member of the Superior Council of Judiciary, the Supreme Council of Prosecution, Team of Experts in the East African Community on Fears, and Challenges and Concerns towards the East African Political Federation. Justice Ugirashebuja has further served as the Senior Lecturer at the National University of Rwanda, and as the Legal Advisor at both the Rwanda Environment Authority and at the Rwandan Constitution Commission. He is a member of the Interim Governing Committee of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment.

MICHELLE WEEKES is a Justice of the High Court of Barbados. Justice Weekes is also a member of the Interim Governing Committee of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment. Justice Weekes began her public service career as a Foreign Service Officer with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and progressed through the judicial ranks from Crown Counsel to Senior Crown Counsel, Principal Crown Counsel, magistrate, acting registrar of the Supreme Court and Master of the High Court.

MICHAEL D. WILSON is an Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 2014 after serving as a Circuit Court Judge on the First Circuit since 2000. As a Circuit Court Judge, he presided over adult drug court, adult mental health court and the felony criminal trial court. Justice Wilson is a founding member and a member of the Interim Governing Committee of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Jindal Global University Law School in Sonipat, India. Prior to his appointment as a Circuit Court Judge, Justice Wilson was the Director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Chair of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, Chair of the State Water Commission, and a Trustee of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission. He was awarded a lifetime membership in the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife agencies in 1999.

ZHENG XUELIN is the Chief Judge for the Department of Case Filing at the Supreme People’s Court (SPC) of China. For many years until recently, he had served as the Chief Judge for the Department of Environment and Resources of SPC and led the judicial reform on establishing environmental courts across the country. At SPC, Judge Zheng also served as Deputy Chief Judge for the 2nd Circuit and the Department of Case Filing. Judge Zheng holds a PhD in Jurisprudence from the China University of Political Science and Law.

DURWOOD ZAELKE is founder and President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, Director of the Secretariat for the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement, and the co- Director/Founder of the Program on Governance for Sustainable Development at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UC Santa Barbara. Previously, Mr. Zaelke was co-founder and President of the Center for International Environmental Law, co-founder and board member of the Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development in London, founder and director of the International Program at Earth Justice, director of the Alaska and DC office of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, and co-founder of the Policy, Legislation, and Special Litigation Section, and founder of the Energy Conservation Section, both in the Environmental Division of the Justice Department.