The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship award has been granted to Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier-Segger
Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier-Segger has been awarded the prestigious 2019 Visiting Professorship award from Leverhulme Trust. Marie-Claire Cordonier-Segger is a professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) in the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo.
Cordonier-Segger is also an international advisor for the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), and a Fellow of the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She serves as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP25 Climate Law Governance Initiative, and is a senior director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).
Her research focuses on international law and governance related to climate change adaptation, mitigation and finance, and she is an international expert in law and governance solutions for the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
"To receive such a prestigious international opportunity is a great honour," says Cordonier-Segger. "Through this Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship at the University of Cambridge, I look forward to sharing knowledge and building new partnerships, to address the greatest justice and sustainable development challenge of our century – global climate change."
The award, hosted by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and partners from the Department of Land Economy and the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, will help her to share ideas and awareness, explore policy and legal innovations and build new partnerships on international law and policy to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 13, Climate Action, and SDG 16, Justice and Good Governance. She will deliver a series of public lectures across the United Kingdom, including in the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics (LSE), and lead seminars on implementing the UNFCCC Paris Agreement and achieving the SDGs through inter-actional law and policy regimes.
Pictured above: Professor Jean Andrey, Dean of Environment, and Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier-Segger, who won the award.
It is wonderful to see Professor Cordonier-Segger being recognized in this way. Her leadership on sustainability and climate change law and governance is a gift to Canada and the world - Jean Andrey, Dean, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo
The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship award was established in 1925 in support of charities, research and education. This award allows academic institutions in Great Britain to invite leading professors from around the world to share their knowledge and expertise to academics and students.