IEEP associates
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Olivia Bina
Olivia Bina is a Research Fellow at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa
(Portugal) and has been an Associate at IEEP since 2000. She has a
degree in Political Sciences (Universit' Statale di Milano), an MPhil
in Environment and Development and a PhD on the Re-conceptualisation of
Strategic Environmental Assessment (both from the University of
Cambridge). She has 12 years experience in the field of policy analysis
and environmental integration mechanisms. Her skills embrace those of
international lobbyist, task force leader, project manager,
environmental consultant and researcher. Olivia's work concentrates on
policies and mechanisms for the integration of environment and
sustainability in a variety of development sectors. Her current
research focuses on environmental governance and institutional
capacity. She has specialised in the development of Strategic
Environmental Assessment (SEA) methods and their application to
infrastructure programmes and multi-sectoral development plans at
regional level. Recently, she has assisted the Bolivian and Maltese
Governments, and the Chilean Ministry of Public Works, in the
development of methodological components for SEA of sectoral and
infrastructure plans. She is involved in several European research
projects in the field of assessment.
Chris Clarke
Chris is a public policy analyst who specialises in environmental liability and related issues. He has acted as an adviser to government departments, agencies, industry groups and NGOs in several countries on the EC Environmental Liability Directive throughout its passage and adoption, and is now monitoring its implementation within the Member States. He has also been following liability developments at national level throughout the world since the mid-1980s, originally focussing on North American enforcement and insurance issues. He was the author of the Update Legal Study for DG Environment in 2001, a specialist within the Legal Unit of DGXI in 1996-7, and Editor of the Financial Times newsletter Environmental Liability Report from 1993-96. He is an Honorary Lecturer at University College London Faculty of Laws and is active within the working groups of the UK and European Environmental Law Associations.
Clare Coffey
Clare was previously a Senior Fellow at IEEP. In September 2005, having worked for the Institute for over ten years, she left to work on a VSO project in the Cameroon for 2 years. She has a legal background and formerly had lead responsibility for the Institute's environmental governance activities, focusing in particular on strategic EU affairs; environmental policy integration and sustainable development; institutional arrangements; new approaches to governance; EU and international treaties; and implementation issues. She also contributed to the Institute's work on fisheries, most notably in the area of governance and subsidies.
Janet Dwyer
Dr Janet Dwyer is a Reader in Rural Studies in the Countryside and Community Research Unit (CCRU). She previously worked for four years as a Senior Fellow at the IEEP. Janet's main research interests are in policies for sustainable agriculture and rural development, including mechanisms for effective nature conservation, landscape management and the protection of the cultural heritage. She has authored a large number of topical research reports for a variety of public and voluntary sector sponsors including work on the second pillar of the CAP, trade and the environment, diffuse pollution from agriculture and funding options for the management of Natura 2000 sites. She has served as a specialist adviser to Parliamentary inquiries on hedgerows and biodiversity, and CAP reform, and has presented at several major European conferences.
Nigel Haigh
Honorary Fellow and Founding Director of IEEP.
Nigel is recognised as a leading authority on the development and application of EU environmental policy. He has been the author and/or editor of the Manual and its fore-runner 'EEC Environmental Policy and Britain: An essay and a handbook' since 1984. Nigel has been appointed by the European Parliament to the Management Board of the European Environment Agency. Previously he was a Board Member of the Environment Agency (for England and Wales).