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• Assistant Professor at the Grotius Center for International Legal Studies, Leiden University
• Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law

Anna Marhold is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. Her specialization is international economic law, with a particular focus on international trade law at the intersection of energy and environmental regulation. Anna Marhold obtained her PhD in Law at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2016). In 2015, she was a Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, in the framework of DISSETTLE (Dispute Settlement in Trade: Training in Law and Economics). In 2013-2014, Anna was a recipient of the EU-US Fulbright-Schuman Grant and a visiting scholar at NYU School of Law, USA. She is a graduate in Law (LLB, LLM), specializing in international trade and investment law, and in Russian (BA, MA) from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Prior to joining Leiden in 2019, Anna was Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC). She speaks Dutch, English, Czech and Russian. Anna has published widely in the field of international economic, trade and energy law and EU external trade relations. Her forthcoming monograph titled Energy in International Trade: Concepts, Regulation and Changing Markets (Cambridge University Press) examines energy regulation in international trade law against the backdrop of energy markets that have radically changed over the past decades. Research interests Anna is particularly interested in the ongoing crisis in international trade law; security interests and other non-strictly trade-related objectives in international trade law; EU Energy Policy and its interaction with WTO obligations; energy and environmental regulation in Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) and "megaregional agreements"; the future of the Energy Charter Treaty; the OPEC cartel; law and economics approaches to energy regulation; the sustainable energy transition; access to supplies and natural resources; public goods; regulation of network industries; squaring energy security with sustainable development and consumer protection; regulation of transit of energy; the Energy Community Treaty and European external energy relations, particularly with the European Neighborhood.

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• Research Fellow in Law and Energy Policy - University of Houston Law Center ( US )

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• General Counsel of the Project

Biography Dr Karolis Gudas is the General Counsel of the project of national significance to Lithuania - Vilnius CHP (Lietuvos Energija Group), and a Lecturer in Energy Law at Vilnius University, Faculty of Law. Dr Gudas holds a PhD degree from the World Trade Institute, University of Bern. He has been a visiting scholar at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, University of Cambridge. Karolis has gained wide experience in the energy sector while working at the European Commission, Swiss National Centre of Competence in Trade Regulation, Baltic law firm Motieka & Audzevicius. He has been included in the list of energy experts of the Legal Task Force of the Energy Charter Secretariat. Research interests Karolis research interests lie in the fields of energy transitions, cross-border energy trade, infrastructure projects development, energy systems government and markets regulation, state aid and competition. He mainly focuses on the legal regimes of the World Trade Organization, the Energy Charter Treaty as well as the European Union. Karolis explores the topics from different disciplinary perspectives (history, law, politics, development, and technology).

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• Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European
• Senior Research Fellow, Institute for European and International Economic Law, University of Bern

Biography Kateryna Holzer has been doing research in the interface of trade, energy and climate change for the last eight years. She has also been consulting the government and the private sector on the issues of compliance of green energy reform with WTO law. Since January 2017, Kateryna works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European and International Economic Law of the University of Bern.

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• Project Leader

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• Global Leadership Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Dr Lisa Benjamin's research investigates the intersection of international environmental law and climate risk from the perspective of developing countries, with a focus on small island developing states. She also researches areas involving non-state actors (including companies and institutional investors) and climate change. Her doctoral studies focused on carbon major companies, company law and climate change. Her research during her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford will investigate developing countries and climate change, with an emphasis on energy policy and capacity building. She is an Assistant Professor in The University of The Bahamas' LL.B. Programme where she teaches courses in environmental, trade, company and intellectual property law. She is a lawyer by training and a member of the Compliance Committee (Facilitative Branch) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Bahamas National Climate Change Committee, co-founder of the Climate Change Initiative at The University of The Bahamas and founder of the Environmental Law Clinic, a collaboration between The University of The Bahamas LL.B. programme and the Eugene Dupuch Law School. She is also a director of the Bahamas Protected Areas Fund and has been an advisor to and member of the Bahamian national delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. She holds and LL.B. from University College London, an LL.M. from the University of London, and a PhD in Law from Leicester University.

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• Research Associate at the BRIDGE Project
• Research Associate, C - EENRG, University of Cambridge

Biography Maria Augusta Paim is a Brazilian-qualified lawyer, currently a Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). She is part of the BRIDGE: Building Resilience In a Dynamic Global Economy Project, directed by Professor Viñuales, a UK-Brazil collaboration funded by the Newton Funds/ESRC. Maria Augusta holds a PhD (international law) with Distinction at the University of São Paulo and a LLM (maritime law) at the University of Southampton (The British Council Chevening Award). Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, she was a Visiting Fellow (international law of the sea) at Queen Mary, University of London, where she has also been invited to be a guest speaker on the International Environmental Law courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Maria Augusta practiced as an advocate for a decade in a renowned law firm in São Paulo, where she gained in depth experience in dispute resolution, primarily in the areas of energy law and general commercial law. She has represented power distribution and generation companies and energy traders in lawsuits and arbitrations involving contracts, energy regulation and civil liabilities matters. Research interests As a Research Associate at the BRIDGE Project, Maria Augusta is contributing at the multidisciplinary study about improving governance of the Brazilian Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the context of the climate change strategies. She is looking at laws and policies that aim at strengthening the water, food and energy securities and at tackling the natural resources climate change pressures, addressing the sectors' interactions in a holistic way. Specifically for the energy sector, she is investigating: (i) the regulation of the water-energy interactions to solve water use competition conflicts between hydropower generators and other water users; (ii) the sustainable transitions policies for the development and adoption of non-hydro renewable energy; and (iii) the energy generation at sea and the Nexus. During her PhD, she has investigated the legal status of oil platforms to clarify whether they should be deemed ships or artificial islands and the applicable legal regime for structures at sea, including the law and policy of oil platforms decommissioning. Maria Augusta is a co-lecturer of the interdisciplinary course "Energy and Climate Change" at the MPhill in Environmental Policy offered by the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge.

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• Lecturer in Politics, University of East Anglia

Biography Pierre is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Environment Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge. He holds a Masters degree in Geography (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), a Masters degree in Political Science (Sciences Po Paris) and a PhD in Politics and International Studies (University of Cambridge). Before taking his position at UEA, he worked as a post-doctoral research associate at C-EENRG. Research interests Pierre works on energy and climate change policies in the EU and its member states. His current research interests also include the external dimension of EU's energy and climate policies, the politics of renewable energy promotion and the democratic governance of energy and climate change. He takes part in the BRIDGE project - ‘Building Resilience In a Dynamic Global Economy: Complexity across scales in the Brazilian Food-Water-Energy Nexus' - funded by the Newton Fund and led by C-EENRG.

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• Lecturer
• Lecturer in International Energy & Natural Resources Law / School of Law

Biography Dr Morgandi is a Lecturer in International Energy and Natural Resources Law at the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She is a public international lawyer and teaches and publishes in the areas of international energy and climate change law, international economic law, international arbitration, territorial and maritime delimitation and human rights. She holds a PhD and a Master in International Law from the Graduate Institute in Geneva (2017; 2011), an LLM from Harvard (2014), and a Laurea Magistrale in Giurisprudenza from the Università Cattolica in Milan (2009). Tibisay was admitted to the Bar in Italy in 2014. Her native languages are Italian and Spanish, and she is fluent in English and French. Before joining QMUL, Dr Morgandi held a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (she was based at C-EENRG, where she is still a Fellow). During her fellowship, she published an original database of bilateral state energy agreements as part of a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Philomathia Foundation and the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Tibisay also lectured in international environmental law in the MPhil in the Department of Land Economy and taught international law at Trinity Hall. Prior to this, Tibisay worked as an associate in the Public International Law Practice and in the International Arbitration Group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Paris. She has consulted for the European Commission as well as Chatham House, Client Earth, and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD).

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• Secretary
• Professor

Biography: Diego P. Fernández Arroyo, born in Argentina, is a professor at the School of Law of Sciences Po in Paris since 2010. He teaches subjects related to international dispute resolution, arbitration, comparative law and conflict of laws. He is co-director of the Global Governance Studies Program and co-director of the Research Project Private International Law as Global Governance (PILAGG). Furthermore, he is the director of the Concours d'arbitrage international de Paris organized by Sciences Po, Clifford Chance, Bredin Prat, ICC, Total, Carrefour and Wolters Kluwer, and the supervisor of Sciences Po Law School teams participating at the international moot competitions. Professor Fernández Arroyo is an honorary professor of the Buenos Aires and Córdoba Universities (Argentina) and he was a Global Professor at the New York University (2013/2015). Professor Fernández Arroyo is the Secretary-General of the International Academy of Comparative Law since 2014, a member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law since 2009, a former President of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP, 2007/2010), and an active member of a number of academic institutions (International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law, International Law Association, International Arbitration Institute, etc.). A former Professor of the Universities Complutense of Madrid and Salamanca and Visiting Professor of the Universities Paris II, Lyon III, Paris III (Chair Pablo Neruda), Fribourg, São Paulo, Federal of Santa Catarina, Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro State, Ottawa, California (Davis), Iberoamericana (Mexico City), La Habana, Kansai (Osaka), Waseda (Tokyo), Doshisha (Kyoto), Sydney, Central of Venezuela, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Los Andes (Bogotá), Medellin, etc., Professor Fernández Arroyo is also a member of Argentinean Delegations before UNCITRAL (Working Group on Arbitration) and the Organization of American States. He has represented ASADIP before the Hague Conference of Private International Law and UNIDROIT as well. Professor Fernández Arroyo is actively involved in the practice of international arbitration as an independent arbitrator and an expert. He has developed several projects in the field of arbitration and international business law for the European Union, the Andean Community, the MERCOSUR, and the Latin-American Integration Association. He has published several books and a number of articles in more than 20 countries. Professor Fernández Arroyo is co-editor of the series Ius Comparatum - Global Series in Comparative Law published by Springer.

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• Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment
• Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge

Jorge E. Viñuales is the Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). He is also Of Counsel with LALIVE. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, where he keeps a limited affiliation as Adjunct Professor of Public International Law. Jorge has published widely in his specialty areas, most recently his books The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. A Commentary (OUP 2015), International Environmental Law (CUP 2015, with P.-M. Dupuy), The Foundations of International Investment Law (OUP 2014, with Z. Douglas and J. Pauwelyn), and Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law (CUP 2012). He is the General Editor of the Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance, published by Cambridge University Press. He also has wide experience in the practice of international law, both in an advisory and a litigation context. He has served as arbitrator, counsel, expert and, earlier in his career, as secretary of arbitration tribunals, and he is also a member of the compliance committee of the UNECE Protocol on Water and Health. Jorge received his education in Argentina (UNICEN), Switzerland (HEI, Geneva, Freiburg), the United States (Harvard), and France (Sciences Po). His mother tongue is Spanish and he is fluent in English, French and Italian. Research interests Jorge's current research interest focus on sustainability transitions, understood as social and technological processes driven by environmental constraints that lead to fundamental changes in social organisation. The role of law in such transitions is of particular importance both as a technology to bring, guide and/or manage environment-driven societal transformations and as the expression of societal values setting bounds to technological and organisational change. Examples of this focus include his current work on energy as a regulatory object in international law or on the grammar of environmental law systems or, still, on the interface between environmental and socio-economic modelling and policy (legal) form and design.

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• Researcher at the Department of Land Economy

Henri van Soest is a PhD researcher at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. His thesis addresses the regulation of cybersecurity in the electricity system. Before starting his PhD at Cambridge, he worked as a researcher in energy law at the University of Oslo, Norway. Henri is a member of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the University of Cambridge. Research interests: Henri's research deals with the governance and regulation of electricity. He has conducted research into the activation of demand-side resources in the electricity system, and on new forms of interaction between actors in the electricity system (such as peer-to-peer electricity trading). His PhD research deals with the regulatory issues that arise from the increasing vulnerability of the electricity system to cyber threats.

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• Research Fellow in Law and Energy Policy at University of Houston Law Center