Hon Justice Antonio Benjamin of the National High Court of Brazil is Secretary-General of the UN International Advisory Council for the Advancement of Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability, and President and lead founder of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment (GJIE), the organization that brings together Supreme Court Justices and Judges from around the world who work on emerging issues in environmental law. He is also a Professor at Yale University where he teaches Comparative Environmental Law and Biodiversity Law and has authored many notable books and articles on these challenges, as well as recipient of the CISDL 2021 Legal Specialist Award for Biodiversity among other honours. He has served as Chair of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and also senior Assistant Attorney General of the State of São Paulo, as founder of the Brazilian Consumer Law and Policy Institute, and as founder of the Law for a Green Planet Institute in Brazil, among other highly distinguished contributions to global justice. 

UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema is the first African woman to serve as Executive Secretary for the Convention on Biological Diversity at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Previously, she was the Director of the Law Division at UNEP, Deputy Director of the Ecosystems Division and Acting Director of the Corporate Services Division, where she led many successful, indeed world-changing, endeavours. For her inspiring leadership, she was honoured with the Nicholas Robinson Award for Excellence in Environmental Law in 2021 by the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL). This is in addition to have been named in 2021 as one of the 100 most influential African Women by AvanceMedia and among the most distinguished Change Makers: Women in Africa for 2020/2021 by Humanitarian Awards Global.

Prof. Dr. Nicolaas Jan Schrijver is Professor Emeritus of Public International Law at Leiden Law School and serves as State Councillor on the Council of State of the Netherlands. He has served as President of the International Law Association and the Institut de droit international among other roles, as Academic Director at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and as Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Royal Netherlands Academy, as Senator and Vice-Chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Under his extremely distinguished and tireless leadership over the course of many years, together with Judge Weeramantry, the Rt Hon Kamal Hossain and others, the deeply influential ILA 2002 New Delhi Principles of International Law on Sustainable Development, and the 2020 ILA Kyoto Guidelines on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Management of Natural Resources for Development, among others, have been developed with enormous impact for peace, justice and sustainability, worldwide.

Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (Canada/Switzerland/United Kingdom) is an Affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the University of Cambridge with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG) and other partners. She also serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada; Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany; and a Full Professor of International Law for the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. She is Law Fellow and Director of Studies for the LLM/MCL at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; and laureate of the Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum Award (2016) and the Weeramantry International Justice Award (2020), among other distinctions  is an Affiliated Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the University of Cambridge with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG) and other partners. She also serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada; Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany; and a Full Professor of International Law for the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. She is Law Fellow and Director of Studies for the LLM/MCL at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; and laureate of the Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum Award (2016) and the Weeramantry International Justice Award (2020), among other distinctions.

Adv. Neshan Gunasekera (Sri Lanka) is an educator, coach, facilitator and lawyer from Sri Lanka. He is committed to bringing communities together for environmental protection, healing and conservation through the use of intergenerational, holistic and experiential learning. Neshan was also the former Director (2007-2012), of the Centre set up by late Judge C.G. Weeramantry, former Vice-President, International Court of Justice and founding member of the World Future Council. He has supported the work of several international organizations including the World Future Council from its inception in a variety of capacities including as a Policy Advisor to the Future Justice Commission during the last few years. He is affiliated with several organizations, including the International Association of Lawyer’s Against Nuclear Arms and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Neshan is a keen sportsman and uses sports as a tool for leadership training and integration. Neshan received the prestigious 2020 Weeramantry International Justice Award for his ceaseless work for the cause of justice and inclusion for all peoples during and after conflicts, most notably in Sri Lanka through the United Nations and globally in his excellent leadership of the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research (WICPER), and in his contributions to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Commission on Education and Communications, the Earth Trusteeship Initiative and Councillor of the World Future Council as a global advocate for peace, justice and rights of current and future generations.

Honourable Justice Professor Marcel Szabo (Hungary) was elected Judge of the Constitutional Court by Parliament on 22 November 2016 with the effect of 1st December 2016. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in 1994. He pursued studies also at the Stanford University, at the Pangheon-Assas University of Paris and at the Cambridge University. Between 1993 and 1994, he worked at the Department of International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, later he became head of Department. Between 2011–2012 he represented the Hungarian government in front of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Between 2012–2016 he is the deputy commissioner for fundamental rights, dealing with the protection of future generations. From 1997 he has been lecturing at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, since 2004 he has been head of the Department of European Law. He earned his PhD in 2003 and habilitated in 2012.