Speaker

Imad Antoine Ibrahim is a PhD Candidate in Law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Institute of Law, Politics and Development (DIRPOLIS), Pisa, Italy. He is also a Research Associate & Project Manager at Global Law Initiative for Sustainable Development (gLAWcal), Essex, United Kingdom. He has been working on global environmental issues for the last 4-5 years where he spent 3 of them working on European commission projects in China on topics related to Climate change, energy and environmental protection. He got interested in the interplay between environmental law and technologies in his PHD as he saw the importance of the new technologies in ensuring the protection as well as the proper management of natural resources.  He is currently the vice-Chair of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) - Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law and a member of the World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL) for the 2017-2020 quadrennial period at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Previously, he was an EU commission Marie Curie Fellow at Tsinghua University School of Law, THCEREL—Center for Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Law and Beijing Normal University (Beijing, China).  He also has worked as a researcher in several European and Italian institutes and universities such as the University Institute of European Studies (IUSE) and Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Novara. He holds a master in European Interdisciplinary Studies, from the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium and Bachelor in Law from the Lebanese University “Filiere Francophone de Droit”, Beirut, Lebanon.