Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is an international lawyer, scholar and executive in the field of sustainable development. She serves as Head of the Economic Growth and Trade Department of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Rome, Italy, with a unique mandate for law and development. Through the IDLO, she provides legal advice and technical assistance on the negotiation and implementation of international treaties on sustainable development to countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia Pacific, and to the United Nations. Cordonier Segger has published more than sixty papers and fourteen books on sustainable economic… development law and policy in three languages. She is a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series Treaty Implementation to Sustainable Development.