Jorge E. Viñuales

Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, where he founded the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CEENRG). He is also a Member of the Institut de Droit International, the Chairperson of the Compliance Committee of the WHO-UNECE Protocol on Water and Health and a Professor of International Law at LUISS in Rome. Jorge is a leading authority in foreign investment law, environmental and energy law, and public international law at large. He has published widely on these subjects, including several reference works, such as The International Law of Energy (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Cassese’s International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020, with Paola Gaeta and Salvatore Zappalà), the ICSID Reports (Cambridge University Press, co-general editor with Michael Waibel since 2018), International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn 2018, with Pierre-Marie Dupuy) and the Foundations of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2014, co-edited with Zachary Douglas and Joost Pauwelyn). He has a wide portfolio of practice in transactional, pre-litigation and litigation matters. He frequently acts as arbitrator and independent expert in investment arbitration proceedings concerning a wide range of sectors. For several years, he advised the Republic of Vanuatu in its high-profile initiative to seek an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice, which led to the largest advisory proceedings in the history of the Court. A dual national of Argentina and Switzerland, Jorge was educated in France (Sciences Po Paris), the United States (Harvard), Switzerland (Freiburg and Geneva) and Argentina (Unicen). He is fluent in Spanish (native), French, English and Italian.