The IWL Academy

  • Emerging Scholars Initiative…

    The Emerging Scholars Initiative (ESI) of the International Water Law Academy seeks to bring together emerging scholars …

  • Alexander López

    Affiliate Members of the Academy

    Dr. Alexander López is currently a professor at the National University of Costa Rica and Latin American Consultant for…

  • Patricia Wouters

    Founding Director of the Academy

    Patricia Wouters is the founding Director of the International Water Law Academy at the China Institute of Boundary and …

  • Andrew A. Allan

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Andrew A. Allan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Dundee, where he has been the Director of the U…

  • David J. Devlaeminck

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    David J. Devlaeminck is Lecturer at the School of Law, Chongqing University and an affiliate member of the International…

  • Antti Belinskij

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Antti Belinskij is Professor of Environmental and Water Law with the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental…

  • Lingjie Kong

    Founding Staff Member of the Academy

    Prof. Lingjie Kong is a Founding Member of the Academy, and a Professor of International Law, and Associate Dean for Res…

  • Ana María Daza-Clark

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Ana María Daza-Clark is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Edinburgh, Law School, and an Affiliate me…

  • Aysegül Kibaroglu

    Affiliate Members of the Academy

    Prof. Dr.Aysegül Kibaroglu is the Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at MEF Unive…

  • Jing LEE

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Jing LEE is a Founding Affiliate Member of our Academy. She is a consultant with UKM Pakarunding Pte Ltd where she is pa…

  • Anthony Dan Tarlock

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Anthony Dan Tarlock is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Tech. Fr…

  • Barbara Janusz-Pawletta

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Dr. Barbara Janusz-Pawletta is vice-rector on International Cooperation at the Kazakh-German University (DKU), a member …

  • Owen McIntyre

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Owen McIntyre is a Professor at the School of Law, University College Cork (National University of Ireland), where he se…

  • Bernadette Araba Adjei

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Dr. Bernadette Araba Adjei is the Deputy Director of the Legal and Monitoring Department of the Water Resources Commissi…

  • Tianbao Qin

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Prof. Tianbao Qin is a Staff Member of our Academy, and National Changjiang Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law, …

  • Bjørn-Oliver Magsig

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Bjørn-Oliver Magsig is an Affiliate Member of our Academy, and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Victoria Univer…

  • Alistair Rieu-Clarke

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Alistair Rieu-Clarke is Affiliate of the Academy. He is a Professor of Law at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. He …

  • Christina Leb

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Dr. Christina Leb is an Affiliate Member of our Academy. She currently also serves as member of the Governing Board of t…

  • Otto Spijkers

    Founding Staff Member of the Academy

    Otto Spijkers is Professor of International Law at Wuhan University's China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies …

  • Dale M. Campbell

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Dale M. Campbell is an affiliate of the International Water Law Academy, Wuhan University. Ms. Campbell has 30 years of …

  • Su Tu

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Dr. Su Tu is an Affiliate Member of our Academy and a research fellow at the Collaborative Innovation Center for Territo…

  • Daming He

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Daming He is Affiliate Member of our Academy and a distinguished professor, the director of Asian International Rivers C…

  • Sergei Vinogradov

    Founding Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Sergei Vinogradov (LLB, PhD Moscow State University) is a Visiting Professor of the International Water Law Academy at t…

  • Sylvester A. Matemu

    Affiliate Members of the Academy

    Mr. Sylvester A. Matemu, from Tanzania, East Africa, is an expert in International and National Water Law. At the nation…

  • Xiaoyu Xiong

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Ms. Xiaoyu Xiong is the Vice Dean for administrative, financial, human resource management, and student affairs at Wuhan…

  • Fan Zhang

    Staff Member of the Academy

    Dr. Fan Zhang is Lecturer of International Law at the China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies (CIBOS) of Wuhan Uni…

  • Dinara Ziganshina

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Dinara Ziganshina is an Affiliate of the Academy. She is deputy director at the Scientific Information Centre of Interst…

  • Mara Tignino

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Dr.Mara Tignino is Reader at the Faculty of Law and the Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Geneva…

  • Michael Hantke-Domas

    Affiliate Members of the Academy

    Dr. Michael Hantke-Domas is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Government at San Sebastián University (Chile…

  • Falko Sellner

    Affiliate Member of the Academy

    Falko Sellner is currently Team Leader of a long-term EU project supporting the Western Balkan Investment Framework, whe…

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Falko Sellner is currently Team Leader of a long-term EU project supporting the Western Balkan Investment Framework, where the European Union, Bilateral Donors and Financial Institutions pool their resources and prioritise investment needs with TA and investment grants and loans at the Western Balkans. This requires coordination and cooperation of many institutions across the EU and the accession countries at the Western Balkans.

Falko has worked in the international donor business as Team Leader, Legal and Institutional Expert, in over 40 jurisdictions, in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and in almost all South-Eastern European countries. His roles ranged from advising governments in transposing modern (and EU compliant) legal requirements and thus establishing regulatory regimes in infrastructure sectors, such as environment (water and waste), transport (road, rail), energy (electricity, gas), many social sectors, on horizontal topics, such as procurement, Public Private Partnerships, to actually establishing partnerships with the private sector and financial institutions for small, medium and large scale infrastructure projects. Having also worked for the private sector in infrastructure project finance and acquisition, Falko is able to strike fair and sustainable balances between public and private stakeholders, development and commercial financial institutions, and their respective interests.

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Falko Sellner holds an LL.M from the University of Innsbruck (Austria), a diploma in European Union Law, from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany and another LL.M from the renowned International Water Law and Research Institute (former CEPMLP) University of Dundee, where he graduated with honours. Falko’s education at the University of Dundee continues to be a vital foundation for his professional life, which is one of the reasons why he has been an associate of the IWLRI for many years and he is honoured to become an affiliate at the Wuhan International Water Law Academy.