School of Economics and Political Sciences
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Post: | Professor | |
Section: | International and European Studies | |
Expertise: | International Institutions: Legal and Political aspects |
Name/Surname: | Emmanuella Doussis | |
Date of birth: | 19 September 1966 | |
Place of birth: | Athens | |
Nationality: | Greek | |
Status: | Married, two children, aged 19 and 16. | |
Address: | 6, Themistocleous Str. – 106 78 Athens - Greece | |
Telephone: | (+30) 210 368 8945 | |
Email: | edoussis[at]gmail[dot]com |
Emmanuella Doussis is professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, director of the Institute of European Integration and Policy and UNESCO chairholder on climate diplomacy.
She has studied political science and law at the University of Athens and at the Sorbonne in Paris. After a first Master’s in Public International Law, she completed a second one in Environmental Law and a phd in International Law. She has been visiting professor at the Universities of Bourgogne, Grenoble and Aix-Marseille, and visiting fellow at the University of Geneva and European University Institute in Florence. She is a member of the IUCN World Environmental Law Committee, the ILA Committee on the role of international law in sustainable management of natural resources and the Greek National Committee for Adaptation on Climate Change. She has published five books, and numerous articles in peer-review international journals.
Her research interests include international and European environmental policy, sustainable development law, climate diplomacy, including the EU climate diplomacy, international settlement of disputes. Her more recent book focuses on the role of international law in effectively managing climate change.