Centre for International Sustainable Development Law
Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz serves as a Senior Advisor at Enlighten Advisory since June 2024 and is the Founder and Fellow at Caeruleum | Globe & Sustainability, along with holding the position of Senior Trade Policy Advisor at Trade Data Monitor LLC. Additionally, Meléndez-Ortiz has been a Founding Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and a Senior Strategic Advisor at Editora Latin Trade since 2019. Other roles include a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization and a Strategic Adviser to the Board at SPACES. Previously, Meléndez-Ortiz co-founded the ICTSD International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, serving as Executive Director from 1996 to 2018. Academically, Meléndez-Ortiz holds a degree in Social Sciences and Economics from Harvard University and has completed various leadership programs at the University of Oxford.
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Centre for International Sustainable Development Law
The CISDL is an international legal research center with the mission to promote sustainable societies and the protection of ecosystems by advancing the understanding, development and implementation of international sustainable development law. The Centre is governed by a distinguished Board of Governors and is guided a roster of honoured international advisors and expert collaborators. The CISDL is engaged in six primary areas of sustainable development law research, each of which is led by a CISDL Lead Counsel based at a developing or developed country law faculty or international organisation. These include: Trade, Investment & Competition Law Biodiversity & Biosafety Law Health & Hazards Law Climate Change Law Human Rights & Poverty Eradication Natural Resources Law Governance, Institutions & Accountability. The CISDL has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The Centre publishes books, articles, working papers and legal briefs in English, Spanish and French. It hosts academic workshops, legal expert panels, law courses and seminar series, and conferences to further its legal research agenda. It provides instructors, lecturers and capacity- building materials for developing country governments and international organisations in national and international law in the field of sustainable development, and works with countries to develop national laws to implement international treaties in these areas.