Our Principals

Professor Cordonier Segger is a world-leading scholar and jurist in the field of sustainable development law and governance. She holds the Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she is law fellow, director of studies, and programme director for Democratising Education for Global Sustainability and Justice (DemEd Global) at Lucy Cavendish College.

She has authored or edited over 160 publications, including over 26 books in six languages, 90 articles and book chapters, and dozens of reports and expert papers. She serves as editor of the Cambridge University Press Series on Implementing Treaties on Sustainable Development and chairs the International Law on Sustainable Development Partnership under the auspices of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

Professor Markus W. Gehring is a leading expert in International Law, European Union Law and Sustainable Development. He serves as Director of Studies in Law at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

His research focuses on the legal dimensions of the transition to a sustainable economy, with particular emphasis on international trade and investment law, and the constitutional dimensions of European integration. He advises governments, parliaments and international organizations on trade and sustainable development chapters in free trade agreements, and on post-Brexit legal frameworks.