Dr Nilufer Oral – Director of the Centre for International Law (NUS); Senior Fellow, Faculty of Law (NUS); Member, United Nations International Law Commission; Co-chair of the Study Group on Sea-level Rise in Relation to International Law
Nilufer Oral is Director of the Centre of International Law at the National University of Singapore. She is a member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) and served as Chairperson of the 74th session. She is a Co-chair of the ILC Study Group on sea-level rise in relation to international law. She is a Member The Hague Academy of International Law Curatorium and is an associate member of the Institut de Droit International. She was a legal advisor and climate change negotiator for Turkish MFA (2009-2016). She is currently a Member of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). She is a Distinguished Fellow of the Law of the Sea Institute at Berkeley Law.
Dr. Oral served on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Council (2012-2016); was Co-chair of the IUCN Specialist Group on Oceans, Coasts and Coral Reefs (2006-2018); and Chair of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law (2014-2017).
Dr. Oral is the series editor for the International Straits of the World publications (Brill); a member of the Board of Editors of the European Society of International Law Series; Associate Editor of the Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea (Brill). She has published numerous articles and edited several books, and has spoken at numerous international conferences.
