Anderson, Winston
Dr. Winston Anderson obtained his PhD degree from Cambridge University, England in 1988, having in that year also been called to the English Bar as a member of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn. He is an Attorney-at-Law at the Bar of Barbados. Since 1988, Dr. Anderson has been teaching in the Faculty of Law, University of the West Indies, where he is now senior lecturer with special research interests are in the field of public and private international law, and international and Caribbean environmental law.

Bastiaansen, Rene
René Bastiaansen is a police commissioner who works for the National Police Agency. He is head of the National Environmental Crime Unit. In May 2000 he started building up the unit and a network with other partners in the field.  He is no stranger to environmental law enforcement. At the beginning of the 1980's he was already involved with environmental cases with the Dutch police. He ran several environmental projects and started a regional environmental crime bureau in one of the police regions. He also headed of a forensic technical unit for more than six years and through this helped to bring about new DNA-legislation in The Netherlands.

Campillo García, José
José Campillo García was born in Mexico, D.F. on July 25^th 1950 and graduated at the Faculty  of Laws from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.  Mr Campillo was awarded some specialization and post-degrees in Mexico, the United States and England in Administration, Planning and Economic Development, respectively.  The most important positions that he has been involved with during is career are:
TRADE MINISTRY: Legal General Sub-director of the National Registration of Transfer of Technology.
During 15 years, he was the representative before the National Commission of Foreign Investments.
CONASUPO: Manager of Planning and Programming of the Conasupo System.
General Director of the "Trust Fund for the Associated Industry".
PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC: Technical Secretary of the Cabinet of Foreign Commerce.
Member of the Negotiating Group for the income of Mexico to the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade.
SECTOR PARAESTATAL: Assistant Commercial General Director and of Finances of Mining Company of Cananea.
PRIVATE SECTOR: Director of exports of the Group IUSA.
JUDICIAL POWER – UPPER COURT OF JUSTICE: Magistrate Numerario of the First Civil Room.
HEALTH MINISTRY: Undersecretary of Regulation and Sanitary Promotion.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY: General Consul from Mexico in Sacramento, California. United States

Chouinard, Robert
Robert Chouinard was born and educated in Montréal, Québec. He joined the Canadian Army in 1962 and served in a number of positions both in Canada and abroad. He retired from the Forces as a Military Police Captain after 28 years of service.  He is a graduate of the Senior Police Administration Course of the Canadian Police College. He collaborated for several years in the course "L'environnement et la loi: aspects juridiques et pratiques" for the graduate training programme of the École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal and was an instructor for the Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project. He has been with the Ministère de l'Environnement, Gouvernement du Québec for thirteen years and is presently Assistant Director, Operational Coordination and Investigations and Head, Investigations Office.

Cooke, Gregg
Gregg Cooke was appointed as Regional Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 6 in May 1998. He has made it his mission to strengthen partnerships to ensure a sustainable environment for communities in the Central-South states of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Mr. Cooke has a long history of working to protect communities along the U.S. and Mexico Border. Earlier, he served as the Texas' North American Free Trade Agreement Environmental Liaison, assisting the Border Environment Cooperation Commission in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, as interim general counsel.

During his tenure at EPA, he has led the effort to strengthen federal, state, non-profit and public alliances to address environmental challenges in the Central-South states and has been a dedicated leader in transforming EPA into a modern, results-oriented organization. As a result, a new type of relationship (based on cooperation, flexibility and trust) has been forged between the public, community leaders, non-profit organizations, state agencies and EPA. Mr. Cooke has strengthened the states role as co-regulators - while ensuring the nation's health-based standards are met. During his tenure, much of the delegation of federal programs to the Central-South states has occurred - demonstrating Cooke's strong commitment to federal/state partnership. He has worked to build a sustainable environment - one that balances jobs and environmental protection - by promoting voluntary, incentive-based solutions and has led the effort to strengthen region 6 state's voluntary clean-up programs under Brownfields, to provide regulatory relief and innovation under Excellence in Leadership projects to create financial and priority setting flexibility using performance partnership agreements, and to streamline and reduce reporting under One Stop Reporting.

Mr. Cooke has worked to create an open dialogue among business, industry, environmental organizations, elected officials and citizens on important environmental and public health problems. Each year, he makes himself available at small town hall meetings with citizens, on-site tours and large conventions, to discuss and learn about important issues. He has worked to reinvent environmental protection using Alternative Dispute Resolution to achieve solutions. Previously, Mr. Cooke practiced environmental law as a partner with a major Austin law firm. He also served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas for three years, first as Chief of the Environmental Protection Division and later as Chief of the Natural Resources Division.

Decleris, Michael
Michael Decleris studied law and social sciences at the Universities of Athens, London and Yale in the USA. He is a graduate fellow of the Yale Law School (LLM., J.S.D.) He has been a Member of the Council of State for 41 years, of which the last ten years he served as Vice-President and President of Section V of this Court having jurisdiction on matters of environment and sustainable development. For many years he studied the science of large-scale systems and taught in educational institutes at the highest level both in Greece and abroad. He founded the Greek Systems Group and the European Systems Association headquartered in Paris. He is Professor of Public Policy at the National Center of Public Administration. He has represented Greece in important missions in connection with Cyprus, the Rio International Conference on the environment, and in the European Community. He has written books and articles, including: The Process of Reaction to Crisis Situations, Development and Compulsion in the Modern State, Systems Theory, Systems Management, Handbook of Systems Science, Towards Expert Government, The Law of Sustainable Development etc. He is presently the President of the Chamber of Environment and Sustainable Development, a Hellenic NGO specialized in developing the Science of Sustainability.

Di Paola, Maria Eugenia
Maria Eugenia Di Paola is the Director of Research and Training, Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN), Argentina, and the Co-Manager of the Program of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Latin America FARN-WBI. She is the Co-coordinator of the IUCN Argentine Committee. Mrs. Di Paola is Attorney at Law (University of Buenos Aires School of Law), LLM in Environmental Law (Pace University School of Law), and has several publications of Environmental Law in Argentina.

Gonzalez, Jose Pablo
My law degree is from the University of Costa Rica’s Law Faculty (1989), but y also received a master degree from the George Washington University Law School. In Washington DC. on International Environmental Law (1998), as part of a Fullbright- Laspau Scholarship Program. That allowed me to take a Graduate Seminar named “Exchange of Environmental Information through the Internet” in May-June 1998 at the John Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Previously I concluded important Graduate Seminars on “Criminal Sociology and Criminal Law”, Offered  by US Professors of the Southwest Texas State University in Costa Rica (1993) and on “Economic Development and Environmental Concerns in Tropical Countries” designed for Decision-Makers from the US Senate and the US Department of Justice and offered by the Organization for Tropical Studies. (1995)

Currently I work at the Environmental Prosecutor’s Office as the Chief Environmental Prosecutor. In 1993, the Attorney General of Costa Rica asked me to create the Environmental Crime Unit, dictate the accusatory policy and the strategies. The main duties are: Investigation and prosecution of the most important an complex environmental cases in the country; control and supervision on the prosecution of environmental cases; attention of all the Supreme Court Hearings in environmental cases; coordination with other state agencies and NGO’s; training of the prosecutors and judges of the country in issues like Environmental Crimes, Forest Legislation, Wildlife Law, Ocean Law, Water and Air Pollution, wetlands, Mining Issues, Environmental Case Law, etc.

Previously, in 1998, I had the opportunity to work at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For the spring semester of 1998 I worked for the Office of Criminal Enforcement Forensics and Training as the Assistant to the Special Council for the Director. The main duties were:  Assisting in preparing EPA to host the Consultation of the G-8 Nations Environmental Enforcement Officials in January of 1998, including drafting presentations and participating as an observer at the Consultation. Also working with the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to facilitate the exchange of data and enforcement cooperation among Mexico, Canada and the United States. Facilitating direct communication between the Office and officials in Central America for transboundary investigations and participating in training efforts with some of these same nations. Also, between 1988 and 1997 I worked as a Specialized Prosecutor for White Collar Crimes (Economical and Financial Crimes), Specialized Prosecutor for Drugs and Money Laundering crimes, Public Defender  Assistant at the Judicial Power and Legal assistant at several Law firms.

I taught several Courses on Criminal Procedure Law in environmental Crimes and Environmental Law for the Judiciary School’s Training Project. I have been reader in various Law theses dealing with environmental issues and Member of the Examination Tribunal. I continuously act as guest lecturer at several seminars and courses in different universities and institutions in Costa Rica and I have done it in Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and in the Costa Rican Embassy in Washington DC. I was also the Course Designer and Head Instructor in the Virtual Classroom Course: “Environmental Concerns in Tropical Countries: Management and Conservation of the Tropical Forest.” Taught in conjunction with several Costarican and U.S. High schools. Costa Rica- U.S.A. Foundation and Lincoln High School. 2001. Finally, I have several articles, publications and research in national and international magazines, newspapers, etc.

Gonzalez, Marco
During the last 25 years Marco Gonzalez has acquired a broad and deep knowledge and experience in the areas of environmental policy, regulation and administration and management of natural resources. He has had business and project administration experience since managed cooperative enterprises and his own consulting and agro forestry firms. He has had the opportunity to get broad knowledge and contacts with the international cooperation for the development agencies and in the field of negotiations of cooperation and environmental agreements, representing my country (Nicaragua), other central American countries and the Central American Commission on Environment and Development (CCAD), an intergovernmental  regional institution for the environment.

Among the positions held during his career, he has been Foreign Policies General Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legal Counselor to the Ministry of Environment of Nicaragua, International Consultant for the World Bank, UNDP, IDB and several national foreign aid agencies (USAID, DANIDA, SIDA, GTZ). Legal advisor to several national and international enterprises and agencies like CARE, COSUDE, etc.  He has as a university professor in various Central American and as a visiting professor or lecturer at some US Universities (Georgetown, Río Piedras in Puerto Rico). Currently, he works as Director for the Central American Mastership in Environmental Law and is in charge of environmental law and international policies at the Executive Secretariat for CCAD. One of my duties is the follow up and the facilitation of the Central American participation at the Multilateral Environmental Agreements such as POPs, PIC, Basel Convention and Climate Change.   Since he has traveled extensively, he has fluent knowledge of English, French, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese and Italian, functional knowledge of German and capacity to read fluently in Norwegian and Danish.

He has doctoral studies in international law from Stockholm State University, master degree in international law from Moscow’s Friendship University and Juris Doctor Degree from the National Autonomous University in Nicaragua.  Post Graduated studies from universities in England, Holland, France and Venezuela.  He has published books, assays and articles, alone or  with other authors, on issues related to environmental law and policies in Central America.

Lauterback, Andrew
Andrew Lauterback is Senior Criminal Enforcement Counsel for the United States Environmental Protection Agency.  He is also Chairman of Interpol’s Environmental Crimes Committee and its Working Group on Pollution Crime.  Mr. Lauterback serves on several national and international policy groups, including the U.S. Department of Justice Environmental Crimes Policy Group.  He was a member of the United States Sentencing Commission’s Advisory Committee on Environmental Crime.  He has prosecuted many major environmental criminal cases in the United States under all the federal environmental statutes.

Lian, Koh Kheng
Koh Kheng Lian: Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore; Director, Asia- Pacific Centre for Environmental Law; IUCN - CEL Vice Chair for South and East Asia and a member of its Steering Committee; she was co-director, and director of a number of courses on environmental management in Asia. She has served as a resource person in environmental workshops in the Asia- Pacific region, and has also presented papers at   international conferences and seminars.  She has published not only in the area of environmental law but also in other areas of law. She is one of the three editors in a forthcoming publication (expected to be out by 12 March 2002), Capacity Building for Environmental Law in the Asian and Pacific Region: Approaches and Resources (Asian Development Bank, 2002)

May, Brad
Brad May is currently Head, Investigation Section, Environment Canada, Ontario Region, based in Downsview, Ontario.  The Section consists of ten investigators who enforce the "Canadian Environmental Protection Act", the "Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act" and the "Fisheries Act".  He has been with the Department for five years. Between 1985 and 1997, Brad was a Dangerous Goods Inspector with Transport Canada, Surface Group, Ontario Region, Toronto, Ontario.  He has a Master of Arts degree from the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, specializing in environmental risk assessment, with a focus on transportation safety.  Brad is a part-time instructor for a fourth-year environmental law course with the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Erindale College, Earth Science and Environment Program, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Nonna, Silvia
Silvia Nonna is the Coordinator of the National Register of Hazardous Wastes, under the Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development in Argentina.  As a lawyer with specialization on Natural Resources, for the last fifteen years she has been working on environmental issues at private and public sectors and also in the academic field. Since 1997 she works for the national environmental agency. She has represented the agency at the 4th Session of the Committee for the implementation of the Convention on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and at the 5th Conference of the Parties at Basel. She works for the governmental agency on PIC and POPs Conventions.

Petek, Waltraud
Waltraud Petek was born in 1961 in Graz, Austria. She studied law at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz and graduated as Dr. iuris in 1984. 1985/86 she was a guest student in the USA at Rutgers Law School, Camden, NJ. From 1992 to 1997 she worked as a scientific assistant at the Department of Public Law, Political and Administrative Sciences of the University of Graz and the Constitutional Court.

In 1987 she joint the Federal Ministry of Environment, Youth and Family Affairs in Vienna as a lawyer for environmental legislation and has since then worked there in different fields such as chemical control, biotechnology, environmental impact assessment, access to information on the environment, eco-audits and environmental management systems, pollution prevention and control of installations, major accidents prevention. In 1988/89 she spent eight month as a national expert at the Commission of the EU, DG Environment. Since 1989 she has been Head of Division within the Federal Ministry of Environment with the aforementioned responsibilities and since 1994 she is also Deputy Director General for Environmental Affairs in the environment ministry, which since 2000 is part of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment, and Water Management. Her division also hosts the Environmental Senate, an independent body for appeals in EIA procedures.   For the environment ministry she also participated in the negotiations of international conventions and of directives of the EU. She is the Austria representative in the plenary of the EU Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL). From 1995 to 1999 she lectured environmental law at the University of Agricultural Sciences of Vienna and has published articles in several areas of environmental law.

Sabsay, Daniel Alberto
Daniel Alberto Sabsay Lawyer, member of the Buenos Aires Bar.  University Doctorate from the Université de Droit de Sciences Sociales et Sciences Économiques PARIS II, France.  Professor at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Constitutional Law.  Post-degree Professor in Environmental Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires, Austral University and Torcuato Di Tella University.  Visiting Professor at the Robert Schuman University (Strasbourg, France) and at the University of Texas (Austin, USA).  Executive Director of Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Wang, Hua
Hua Wang (Ph.D. in environmental economics, management and policy, UNC-Chapel Hill, USA) has been working as an environmental economist with the Development Research Group of the World Bank since 1995. His primary research interests are in economic valuation of environmental resources and environmental policy design and enforcement. He has conducted extensive research on the contingent valuation method and the enforcement issues and impacts of environmental regulations, especially the environmental information disclosure approach and the pollution charge system in China. He taught in Nanjing University, China, from 1983 to 1991.