Professor Dr Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, PhD ad eundem (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon), MEM (Yale), BCL & LLB (McGill), BA Hons (Carl/UVic) FRSC FRSA WIJA is a world-leading scholar and jurist in the field of sustainable development law and governance, and a fellow of the LCIL. She holds the Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy in the University of Cambridge as law fellow, director of studies, and Democratising Education for Global Sustainability and Justice (DemEd Global) programme director at Lucy Cavendish College. Further, as senior director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), executive secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and chair of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Biodiversity Law and Governance Initiative, she lectures and leads international law partnerships on climate law and governance, biodiversity law and governance, natural resources stewardship, rights of indigenous peoples and future generations, and trade, investment and financial instruments contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.