Speakers Bios
Aaron
Cosbey is an Associate and Senior Advisor to the International
Institute for Sustainable Development. Aaron Cosbey is an environmental
economist specializing in the areas of trade and sustainable development,
international environmental governance, and the greening of business/regulatory
reform.
Duncan
Brack is the Head of the Sustainable Development Programme at
the Royal Institute for International Affairs. He has expertise in
interaction of international trading and environmental protection
regimes, international environmental crime, ozone depletion and the
Montreal Protocol, and international environmental institutions.
Nagesh
Kumar was appointed the Director-General of RIS in October 2002.
Dr. Kumar joined RIS in 1985 after holding teaching and research positions
at the University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Public Administration,
National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies,
and the United Nations University/INTECH.
Werner
Corrales-Leal is a Senior Fellow at ICTSD and a Senior Adviser
for UNCTAD. He is the former Venezuelan Minister of Development; Minister
of Trade; and Minister of State in charge of Economic Planning and
Coordination. He was also Venezuela’s Ambassador to the WTO and
the UN for over five years.
Navroz
K. Dubash is a Senior Associate in the Institutions and Governance
Program at the World Resources Institute. His work explores the impact
of financial globalisation on problems of environment and development
as part of WRI's International Financial Flows and the Environment
(IFFE) project, with current attention to liberalisation of the electric
power sector worldwide.
Albert
Cho is currently an intern at the World Resources Institute. He
was a 2001 Truman Scholar, and has served as the Executive Editor
of the Harvard International Review and is the author of the Global
Trade Negotiations Home Page, a website about international trade
policy.
Elisabeth
Tuerk is a Staff Attorney at the Center for International Environmental
Law’s European office in Geneva, Switzerland, where she works
on reforming the WTO to reflect sustainable development concerns and
to respond to the need for greater public participation in WTO policy
making and dispute settlement.
Kevin Gallagher is a Lecturer at the Global Development and Environment
Institute of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, US.
Howard
Mann is a practising lawyer and the Senior International Law Advisor
to the International Institute for Sustainable Development, where
he also coordinates the IISD Investment Program. Howard has a PhD
in international law from the London School of Economics, and was
a negotiator of several international environmental agreements for
Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Law at the
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law.
Konrad
von Moltke works on international environmental relations for
IISD. Recently his work has focused on environmental policy and international
economic relations, debt, trade and development. He is a Senior Fellow
at World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC, Adjunct Professor of Environmental
Studies and Senior Fellow of the Institute on International Environmental
Governance at Dartmouth College and Visiting Professor of Environmental
Studies at the Free University, Amsterdam.
