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Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder
» Program LeaderNathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder is a senior international lawyer and heads the Investment Program of the International Institute on Sustainable Development (IISD). She previously was the managing attorney of the Center for International Environmental Law's Geneva office, where she concentrated on issues relating to trade, investment and sustainable development.
For several years Ms Bernasconi worked in Hanoi, Vietnam, for a legal reform project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as well as for the Australian law firm Phillips Fox. In Switzerland Ms. Bernasconi worked for the Justice Department, Berne, in the Section for International Law.
She holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., and a Lic. iur. Degree from Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland. She is admitted to the Bar of Basel, Switzerland.
Recent book publications include:
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Freshwater and International Economic Law (with Edith Brown Weiss and Laurence Boisson de Chazournes), Oxford University Press, 2005;
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Environment And Trade: A Guide To WTO Jurisprudence (lead author), Earthscan, 2006; and
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Reconciling Environment and Trade (with John H. Jackson and Edith Brown Weiss), Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
Publications
Background paper on Vattenfall v. Germany arbitration
Paper: Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder, 2009