A non-governmental, non-profit, international
association of lawyers and non-lawyers active in the field of fresh
water resources
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Curriculum
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Chairman
Dominique Alhéritière |
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| Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) positions |
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| 1999-2008 |
Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on External
Training |
| 1992-2008 |
Director, Administrative Services Division |
| 1991-1992 |
FAO Representative, Cameroon and Equatorial
Guinea |
| 1988-1991 |
Deputy Director, Office of the Director General |
| 1986-1988 |
Principal Attaché de Cabinet, ODG |
| 1985-1986 |
Senior Legal Officer |
1978-1985
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Legal Officer (environment law) |
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| 2005-6 |
Chairperson of the United Nations Inter-Agency
Procurement Working Group (IAPWG) |
| 2005 |
Chairperson of the IAPWG Venue Selection Committee
and Vice-Chairperson of the IAPWG |
| 2003-4 |
Chairperson of the United Nations Security and
Safety Services Network (UNSSSN) |
| 2001-2 |
Chairperson of the United Nations Inter-Agency
Network of Facilities Managers (INFM) |
| 1974-78 |
Economic Affairs Officer (water law), United
Nations, New York |
| 1971-74 |
various assignments for the Government of Canada,
the Government of the Province of Québec, and Laval
University. |
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| Various assignments in, and missions to well
above 100 countries; drafter of several international conventions
on marine protection. More than 30 publications in natural
resources law and management. |
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| Education |
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LL.D. - Laval University, Quebec City, Canada,
1974; LL.M. - Montreal University, Montreal, Canada, 1971.
Master’s Degree in Law, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1969.
DEUG, Law & Economics, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1967. |
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Vice Chairman & Treasurer
Stefano Burchi |
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| Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) positions |
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Legal Officer, then since 1992 Senior Legal
Officer, Development Law Service, Legal Office, Rome, Italy
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appointments |
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Economic Affairs Officer (water law), United
Nations, New York; |
| 1973-79: |
Legal Officer, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (National
Oil & Gas Corporation), Rome, Italy |
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| Achievements |
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| Advisory assignments on national and international
water resources law and administration to several member countries
of the United Nations (1979-83) and of FAO (1983 to-date).
Author of FAO publication Preparing national water resources
regulations – Principles and practice (Rome, 1994, 400
pages); co-author of FAO publication carrying the French version
of same (Élaboration des réglementations nationales
de gestion des ressources en eau – Principes et pratiques,
Rome 1999, 300 pages); author of several published articles
on water law; regular contributor of a freshwater treaties
year-in-review feature to the Yearbook of International Environmental
Law, and of a year-in-review national water legislation feature
in the journal Water Law. |
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LL.M. – Harvard Law School, USA, 1977
M.S. – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 1978
Law Degree – University of Rome, Italy, 1972 |
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Editor
Marcella Nanni |
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| Summary
of Professional Experience |
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Dr. Marcella Nanni is an international expert
in water law and administration and related disciplines. To
date, she has provided expert advice in this field to a number
of governments and international river basin institutions
within the framework of projects financed by international
organizations such as the FAO and the European Union, and
by bilateral donors. This advice has covered the development
of draft water legislation and international agreements, the
restructuring of water resources management institutions,
water law implementation requirements and the formulation
and conduct of capacity-building programmes, amongst other
things.
In 2007 she produced the second edition, revised and updated,
of major textbook ‘Principles of Water Law and Administration,
National and International,’ by Dante A. Caponera (1921-2003),
which was first published in 1992 by Balkema, Rotterdam. She
is the author, or co-author, of a number of articles in law
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Member
George Radosevich |
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| RAD International
Inc. |
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| Since 1974: |
President and Water Law senior water, environment
and related resources legal/institutional specialist |
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Professor Emeritus of Water Law, Colorado State
University.
From 1969 to 1997, Professor of Water Law with responsibilities
for teaching water, environmental and agricultural law courses,
extension services and interdisciplinary research through
Western U.S., and CSU international water and related development
projects on water policy, law, and organizational arrangements,
particularly those associated with agricultural uses of water
in the western United States and in numerous countries in
Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America. Summers
of 1991 and 1992, as Visiting Professor at Thammasat University
Faculty of Law, Bangkok, teaching courses in water and environmental
law. January 1994 conducted "The Role of Water and Environmental
Law in National Development Workshop", at Hanoi Water
Resources University, Hanoi, Vietnam. Authored or co-authored
over eighty publications related to his areas of specialization
while with CSU.
Economic Affairs Officer and Water Law Specialist, United
Nations, New York December 1972 to December 1973 while on
leave of absence from CSU, managing UN water projects in Afghanistan,
Ethiopia and Argentina, and providing UN advisor services
to numerous countries in Asia, Africa and South America. |
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Served as a water law consultant in more than
45 countries to USAID, World Bank, United Nations, Asian Development
Bank, CIDA, GTZ, Interim Mekong Committee, Mekong River Commission
and several countries and private firms.
Areas of specialization include:1) international water and
environmental law; 2) improving water use and management efficiency;
3) drafting amendments and/or new policies and laws for surface
and groundwater utilization and river basin management; 4)
integration of water quantity and quality control measures;
5) formation of water user associations and river basin organizations;
6) reorganization of government water agencies; 7) alternative
dispute resolution of national and international water, related
resources and environmental issues; and 8) data and information
systems relevant to improved water and related resources and
environmental planning, development, protection and management.
Primary focus has been on improving and/or designing and advising
on institutional frameworks (policies, laws and organizational
arrangements) for the sustainable, integrated, comprehensive
development of water and related resources for multiple objectives
and uses.
Co-organized and directed the "International Conference
on Global Water Law Systems", Valencia, Spain, August
1975, and organized the "Regional Symposium on Water
Resources Policy in Agro-Socio-Economic Development"
(Water Resources Policy for Asia), Dhaka, Bangladesh, August
1985. Provided assistance in drafting of the 1995 Mekong Agreement,
1998 Vietnam Law on Water Resources and the 2002 Chinese Water
Law as well as topic specific laws and regulations in numerous
other countries. |
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| Education |
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B.B.A. in Political Science (University of Wyoming,
1966)
Juris Doctor of Law (College of Law, University of Wyoming,
1968)
M.Agri. in Agricultural Economics (Colorado State University,
1972). |
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