Marc Pallemaerts is an international environmental lawyer and political scientist, who specialises in legal and governance issues of environmental policy, sustainable development and climate change. He is a Senior Fellow at Institute for European Environnemental Policy (IEEP) and head of its Environmental Governance Research Programme.Marc has held several positions as a senior policy advisor to successive Ministers of Environment in Belgium, most recently as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Federal State Secretary for Energy and Sustainable Development, Olivier Deleuze, from 1999 to 2003. Before joining IEEP, he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where he was responsible for research projects on the EU’s environmental and sustainable development policy. He continues to teach international and European environmental policy and law at the VUB and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and has recently been appointed Professor of European environmental law at the University of Amsterdam.

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