Jorge E. Viñuales

He is also the Director-General of the Latin American Society of International Law,[3] and has been appointed as Chair of the Compliance Committee[4] of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol on Water and Health.

[9][2] Viñuales practised law both as a private practitioner in Argentina and Switzerland, and in the non-profit sector for a number of non-governmental organisations, including Amnesty International.

In 2013, at the age of 37, he became the inaugural holder of the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, where he also became a Fellow of Clare College and of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, as well as the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), which he founded.

His contribution to the elucidation of the interactions between foreign investment and environmental law has been very influential in both academic and policy circles.

[citation needed] His current work focuses on the governance of sustainability transitions, and it combines expertise in law and policy with economic and environmental modelling.