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Speakers
Dr
Kilaparti Ramakrishna
Sarah Shallenberger Brown Chair in Environmental Policy, Woods
Hole Research Center, USA
 Dr
Kilaparti Ramakrishna, a lawyer by training, has devoted much
of his teaching and research career to the interactions of law,
science and politics. He was appointed Deputy Director of the
Woods Hole Research Center by its Board of Trustees in 1995.
He currently holds the Sara Shallenberger Brown Chair in Environmental
Policy at the Woods Hole Research Center. He also has been a
Visiting Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University since 1993.
Dr Ramakrishna
obtained his Ph.D. in International Environmental Law from Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He worked as Assistant Professor
at the Indian Academy of International Law and Diplomacy and
at the Indian Society of International Law (1980-85) prior to
attending Harvard Law School in 1985 as a Fulbright Visiting
Scholar. He has held teaching and research positions at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1986-88), the East-West
Center (1988), Boston University (1987/88, 1991, 1993/94), Boston
College (1993/94), Yale University (1999/2000) and Harvard Law
School (2000/2001).
He served
as a Special Advisor to the United Nations in drafting the Framework
Convention on Climate Change. In addition to global warming
and climate change issues, he has contributed extensively in
a variety of fields including: trends in national and international
decision making, legal and institutional framework for alternative
dispute resolution mechanisms, creation and management of marine
sanctuaries, and conservation and utilization of world forests
and biodiversity. He was instrumental in helping establish an
independent World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development,
and served as its Coordinator from 1992-95. He also served as
Chief, Division of Implementation and Communication at the Secretariat
for the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1998.
Dr Ramakrishna
served as the President of the Woods Hole Chapter of Sigma Xi,
The Scientific Research Society in 1996. He currently serves
on the Editorial Boards of the Review of European Community
& International Environmental Law (RECIEL), London, U.K.,
Global Change, Oakland, California, and /linkages/journal/,
Winnipeg, Canada. In addition he serves on the Boards of Directors
of the Consensus Building Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts
and the New England Forestry Foundation. He is a Fellow of the
World Academy of Art and Science, a member of the IUCN's Commission
on Environmental Law and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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