Charles Dileva

Charles E. Di Leva is the World Bank's Chief Officer for Environmental and Social Standards, and former Chief Counsel, Environmental and International Law. He works globally on environmental and social policy compliance and risk management, climate finance, and the development and the development and implementation of multilateral environmental agreements and national law. Mr. Di Leva represented the Bank in Climate, Biodiversity and other environmental treaty negotiations. Other posts include Director of the Environmental Law Center of IUCN – The World Conservation Union, in Bonn, Germany (1999-2001); Trial Attorney with the U.S. Justice Department, Environment and Natural Resources Division; Senior Counsel with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and as Environmental Advocate for the RI Attorney General. He also served as Senior Program Officer with the Environmental Law Unit for UNEP in Nairobi, Kenya and in private environmental law practice in Washington D.C. Mr. Di Leva is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law teaching Trade and Sustainable Development and an adjunct at the American University Washington College of Law where he taught Project Finance and the Environment. He is a graduate of VLS, class of '78.