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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Executive Chairman
Stefano Burchi |
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| Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) positions |
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| Since 1983: |
Legal Officer, then since 1992, Senior Legal Officer,
then since 2007 Chief, Development Law Service, Legal Office,
Rome, Italy. Retired on 31 December 2008. |
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| 1979-83: |
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);
co-author of FAO publication carrying the text of selected treaties
and other legal instruments regarding transboundary groundwaters
(Rome 2005, 550 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 of Water Law. |
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| Education |
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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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Deputy Chairman & 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
Gabriel Eckstein |
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| Present position. |
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| Gabriel Eckstein is a Professor of Law specializing in water, environmental, natural resources and international law at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, TX, USA. In addition, he is CEO of International H2O Solutions, an international consultancy focusing on legal, policy and management issues related to global and transboundary fresh water resource, and is Director of the International Water Law Project |
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Previously, Professor Eckstein served as: Professor of Water Law and Director of the Texas Tech Center for Water Law and Policy at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock, TX, USA (2003 to 2010); Senior Counsel for CropLife America, an agrochemicals industry trade association, in Washington, DC (2000-2003); and a litigator in private practice working on environmental, toxic tort and asbestos cases (1998-2000)..
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Professor Eckstein is a recognized expert in international and U.S. water and environmental law and policy. He has served as an expert advisor and consultant to various organizations and programs, including the Geneva Initiative, U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO-IHP), U.N. International Law Commission (UNILC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO), US Agency for International Development (USAID), World Commission on Dams, Organization of American States (OAS), UNESCO/OAS ISARM Americas Programme, and various local water entities in the United States. He has published dozens of articles and book chapters on water and environmental issues, and serves on the Executive Board of the International Water Resources Association (2010-present) and the Advisory Board of the US-based Water Policy Institute (2009-present).
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| Education |
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| Professor Eckstein holds: both a J.D. (1995) and LL.M. in Environmental Law (1997) from American University Washington College of Law, a M.S. in International Affairs (1992) from Florida State University, and a dual Bachelor Degree in Geology and International Relations (1989) from Kent State University. |
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Member
Lilian del Castillo – Laborde |
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| CV abstract
- 2009 |
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| Mrs. Lilian del Castillo-Laborde is a lawyer and
PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she
chairs courses on ‘International Jurisdictions’, ‘Jurisdictional
Immunities’, ‘Environment and Human Rights’,
among others. She is also counselor at the Argentine’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in shared natural resources matters.
She recently published the books Water Fora, From Mar del Plata
to Istambul (in Spanish) and The Río de la Plata and
its Maritime Front Legal Regim. Among her latest articles, she
published ‘Environmental awareness for Arctic and Antarctic
regions,’ ‘La Plata Basin’ and ‘Case-law
on International Watercourses’. She is a member of the
International Law Association, the American Society of International
Law, the International Water Resources Association, the Argentine
Council for Foreign Relations, and other academic institutions.
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Member
Léna Salamé |
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| CV May
- 2009 |
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Léna Salamé was born in Beirut
in 1974. She graduated as a jurist in compared French and
Lebanese law at the Université Saint Joseph in 1992.
She obtained her Diplôme d’études approfondies
(DEA) in International public law and international organizations,
from the Panthéon Sorbonne – Université
de Paris 1, in Paris in 1999. She is a trained mediator.
She joined UNESCO’s Division of Water Sciences in October
1999. She has first collaborated in the finalization of the
Water Education and Training Vision, and the Aral Sea Basin
Vision, in the framework of the World Water Vision. She has
then worked for the Division as a legal researcher in international
law for the PCCP project (from Potential Conflict to Co-operation
Potential), which is the water conflict resolution component
of the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme. Since
June 2002 she has been serving as the overall coordinator
of PCCP www.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp
Ms. Salamé lectures on issues related to shared water
resources, international conflicts and cooperation, as well
as alternative dispute resolution techniques, at international
and national events. She also lectures within the framework
of educational programmes. She is involved in the development
of research and educational tools, aiming at increasing trust
among stakeholders concerned with the management of shared
water resources at various levels and, contributing to peace,
cooperation and development related to these resources. |
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Honorary 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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appointments |
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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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| Achievements |
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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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