International and European environmental law in context
About me
I am a lawyer and consultant on international and European environmental law from Thessaloniki, Greece. My research has been focusing on biodiversity, agriculture, human rights, and governance of emerging technologies.
My academic work is informed by empirical knowledge built over more than 20 years’ of observation of intergovernmental negotiations as a writer and editor for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). In this capacity, I have observed and analyzed international developments in a number of fora on environment and sustainable development, and I have witnessed first-hand the negotiation and adoption of instruments such as the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA), and the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit-sharing. In addition, I have concluded numerous technical consultancies for UN organizations and I have advised national governments and NGOs on issues related to the law and governance of biodiversity, climate change, and food and agriculture.
As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the School of International Studies in the University of Trento, Italy, I focus on the governance of synthetic biology.
From 2013-2018, I was a Research Fellow in the ERC project BeneLex (Benefit-sharing for an equitable transition to the green economy – the role of law”), led by Prof. Elisa Morgera at Strathclyde University, Scotland, UK. My BeneLex research focused on the legal concept and applications of fair and equitable benefit-sharing in the sectors of land, food and agriculture and resulted in a monograph, which is available open-access:
Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing in Agriculture. Reinventing agrarian justice
About this blog
This blog shares highlights of my ongoing research on the law and governance of synthetic biology.
Law and Governance of synthetic biology 