Annalisa Savaresi

Annalisa Savaresi is an environmental lawyer with 20 years of experience working with international, regional, and national governmental and non-governmental organizations. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen in 2013 and has since held academic positions at the University of Edinburgh (2012-2016) and the University of Stirling, where she continues to hold a part-time chair.

Her academic portfolio includes over 50 peer-reviewed articles and contributions to renowned collections, such as Nature and the Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, which have been widely cited, including by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She has held visiting posts at the University of Bologna, the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy), and the University of La Sabina (Colombia). At the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Annalisa directs the Joint Nordic Master Programme in Environmental Law and oversees the Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law’s contributions to the Horizon Europe project RETOOL and the Jean Monnet network, Green Deal Net.

Annalisa serves as the Director for Europe within the Global Network on Human Rights and the Environment and has been a member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law since 2009.

She has provided expert evidence to legislative bodies such as the UK, EU, and Scottish Parliaments and currently sits on the Board of Environmental Standards Scotland, established under the UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021, overseeing public authorities’ compliance with environmental law in Scotland.