Marc PallemaertsDr Marc Pallemaerts holds graduate degrees in law and political science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Harvard University. He teaches European and international environmental law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of msterdam. He has also acted as legal and policy adviser to several environment ministers and was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Belgian State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development from 1999 to 2003. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), an independent, non-profit research institute with offices in London and Brussels, and heads the Institute's Global Issues and External Action Research Programme, and also serves as Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council on the implications for human rights of environmentally sound use and disposal of hazardous chemicals and wastes. Read More Read Less