Markus Gehring

Programme Committee

Dr Markus W. Gehring teaches EU and international sustainable development law at the Law Faculty at the University of Cambridge. He serves on the Management Committee for the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Hughes and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He has been a Visiting Professor in several law faculties around the world and held a Jean Monnet Research Chair ad personam in Sustainable Development Law at the University of Ottawa Law Faculty in Canada. He is also an affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy, a Founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG) and an Associate of the Centre for Climate Mitigation Research (4CMR). Markus holds an LLM and JSD from Yale and a Dr jur from Hamburg. A member of the Frankfurt/Main and Ontario Bars, he practised European and international trade law with Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office. He serves as Lead Counsel for Sustainable Trade, Investment and Finance Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), based at McGill University.