Prof. Dr. Marie Claire Cordonier-Segger is a United Nations Climate Change COP Impact Maker and an award-winning professor and expert jurist. She holds the inaugural Chair in Sustainable Development Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge and is a Law Fellow and Director of Studies at Lucy Cavendish College. She is also the Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Chair of the UNFCCC Climate Law & Governance Initiative, and serves in numerous leadership roles with global sustainability organizations.

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