ISC Members

Francesco Sindico is a Professor of International Environmental Law at the University of Strathclyde Law School in Glasgow, Scotland. Within IWRA, he has led the International Scientific Committee of the First and Second Edition of the IWR Islands Water Congress and co-leads the Islands and Water Task Force. As a consultant and through a secondment he has collaborated with the Scottish Government Islands Team working on island governance and climate change related projects. He now heads from the University of Strathclyde the Secretariat of the European Islands Policy Network, that brings together island policy officials from Scotland, Ireland, Finland and Croatia. Francesco’s work and research has focused on Scottish islands, but he has also been working on matters relevant for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) from a public international law perspective, and from a climate change law angle. In this last area he is actively involved with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) where he leads the Climate Change Law Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.