Dr. Alexander López is currently a professor at the National University of Costa Rica and Latin American Consultant for…
Andrew A. Allan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Dundee, where he has been the Director of the U…
Antti Belinskij is Professor of Environmental and Water Law with the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental…
Ana María Daza-Clark is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Edinburgh, Law School, and an Affiliate me…
Prof. Dr.Aysegül Kibaroglu is the Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at MEF Unive…
Anthony Dan Tarlock is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech. Fr…
Dr. Barbara Janusz-Pawletta is vice-rector on International Cooperation at the Kazakh-German University (DKU), a member …
Dr. Bernadette Araba Adjei is the Deputy Director of the Legal and Monitoring Department of the Water Resources Commissi…
Bjørn-Oliver Magsig is an Affiliate Member of our Academy, and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Victoria Univer…
Dr. Christina Leb is an Affiliate Member of our Academy. She currently also serves as member of the Governing Board of t…
Dale M. Campbell is an affiliate of the International Water Law Academy, Wuhan University. Ms. Campbell has 30 years of …
Daming He is Affiliate Member of our Academy and a distinguished professor, the director of Asian International Rivers C…
Mr. Sylvester A. Matemu, from Tanzania, East Africa, is an expert in International and National Water Law. At the nation…
Dinara Ziganshina is an Affiliate of the Academy. She is deputy director at the Scientific Information Centre of Interst…
Dr.Mara Tignino is Reader at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva…
Dr. Michael Hantke-Domas is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Government at San Sebastián University (Chile…
Falko Sellner is currently Team Leader of a long-term EU project supporting the Western Balkan Investment Framework, whe…
Dr. Fuqiang Tian is Affiliate Member of our Academy. He got his bachelor, master and PhD degrees from Tsinghua Universit…
Dr Fozia Nazir Lone has been teaching in JD, LL.M, LL.B programs at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong (C…
Dr. Guangheng Ni is Affiliate Member of our Academy. He obtained his bachelor and master’s degrees from Tsinghua Univer…
Prof. Dr. Heng Liu is Affiliate Member of our Academy, as well as Senior Technical Advisor of Department of Energy, Unit…
Prof. Huiping Chen is an affiliate of the International Water Law Academy (IWLA) of Wuhan University. She is Professor o…
Hugo Tremblay is Affiliate Member of our Academy and Professor Natural Resources and Environmental Law at the Faculty of…
Harro van Asselt is an Academy Affiliate of the Academy. He is Professor of Climate Law and Policy with the Centre for C…
Jin Gu is an Emerging Scholar of our Academy, and a PhD student at the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies of …
Dr. Jiwei Chen is an Affiliate Member of our Academy and the Chief Engineer (DDG Level) of the International Economic &a…
Tamar Meshel is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in Canada, and an Affiliate member of…
Dr. Melissa McCracken is an affiliate of the International Water law Academy, Wuhan University. She currently holds the …
Mohamad Mova AlAfghani is an affiliate member of the Academy and Lecturer on Environmental Law at Universitas Ibn Khaldu…
Dr. Yumiko Yasuda is the senior network and transboundary water cooperation specialist at the Global Water Partnership.S…
Dr. Yumiko Yasuda is the senior network and transboundary water cooperation specialist at the Global Water Partnership.She leads GWP’s thematic work on transboundary water, and is the lead faculty of the MOOC on Transboundary Freshwater Security, designed and directed the production of the course. As a GWP network specialist, she also supports GWP networks’ activities in Pan Asia and Caribbean regions including their governance, IWRM, SDG, climate and water. Her area of expertise lies in the analysis of water and environmental governance, water diplomacy, political economy analysis surrounding natural resources management, with a focus on transboundary rivers and non-state actors’ engagements in natural resources management.Yumiko brings experiences working in multiple sectors in the field of water and environment including: UNDP-GEF Asia and the Pacific region program officer, livelihoods specialists for WWF Mekong program, community based ecotourism advisor in Cambodia, environmental specialist at Ericsson, postdoc researcher on water diplomacy at SIWI, Uppsala University and the Hague Institute for Global Justice.
Yumikoobtained her PhD degree from the Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science at the University of Dundee, MA in environmental policy from the Tufts University, and MSc in environmental science from Tsukuba University. Her research on the Mekong has culminated in the publication of a book entitled “Rules, Norms and NGO Advocacy Strategies: Hydropower Development on the Mekong River” by Routledge in 2015.
Key publications
· Practical Guide for the Development of Agreements or Other Arrangements for Transboundary Water Cooperation. (2021) United Nations. Geneva. (Drafting group member of the guide and contributing author on section ‘Protection of marine environment’)
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