- Nigel Haigh – (Chair)
- Richard Macrory
- Domingo Beltran
- Don Smith
- Hugo von Meijenfeldt
- Bedrich Moldan
- Richard Stewart
Chair of the Editorial Board
Nigel Haigh was Director of IEEP from 1980 to 1998. He has published extensively on European environmental policy. His 1984 book EEC Environmental Policy and Britain was the first attempt to analyse all EU environmental legislation and was the precursor of the present Manual. Previously he helped to found the European Environment Bureau and was its Vice-President from 1975 to 1979. He was a founder member of the Environment Agency for England and Wales (1995–2000) and was appointed by the European Parliament to the Management Board of the European Environment Agency (2000–2005). He is currently President of Environmental Protection UK.
Members of the Editorial Board
Richard Macrory is a Barrister at Brick Court Chambers, London and Professor of environmental law at the Faculty of Laws, University College, London, where he is director of the Centre for Law and the Environment. He has been a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and a board member of the Environment Agency, England and Wales. In 2005/2006 Professor Macrory was appointed by the UK Cabinet Office to lead the Review on Regulatory Sanctions, covering some 61 national regulators as well as local government and almost every area of business regulation. All the recommendations in his final report ‘Regulatory Justice – Making Sanctions Effective’ published at the end of 2006 were accepted by Government.
Domingo Jiménez Beltrán has extensive experience, mostly in the field of environmental protection, natural resources and energy management and sustainable development, in both private enterprises (production, manufacturing, engineering and consulting) and public administration at regional, national and community level. Domingo was the first Executive Director of the European Environment Agency for eight years until 2002, and later an Adviser at the Economic Office of the Spanish President, founder and first Director of the Spanish Observatory for Sustainability, and is currently a Consulting Engineer and Adviser of Governments, Business and Institutes, in particular of the Spanish Observatory for Sustainability. He is also author, lecturer and professor of specialized courses.
Don C. Smith is the Director of the University of Denver (Colorado) Sturm College of Law Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Graduate Program, one of the highest ranked programs of its kind in the United States. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, a juris doctorate from the Washburn University School of Law, and an LLM in European Union Law from the University of Leicester Faculty of Law where his dissertation focused on the Common Transport Policy in the context of the European Community’s commitment to sustainable development. He edits Utilities Policy, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that addresses global utility issues including water, electricity and transport. Before joining the University of Denver in 2002, he served as a special assistant to former Kansas Governor John Carlin and in management roles with two major global publishers, McGraw-Hill and Reed Elsevier. At the University of Denver he teaches ‘EU Environmental Law and Policy’ and ‘Comparative Environmental Law & Policy’.
Hugo G. von Meijenfeldt is Deputy Director General, Ministry of the Environment (VROM) in the Netherlands and special envoy for climate change, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His work focuses on legislation and litigation with regard to soil remediation programmes. Previously positions at VROM include: Head of unit and then deputy director of the European policy division (including during the Dutch Presidency of the EU in 1997); Director of Soil, Water, Rural Environment; and the Director of International Affairs. He has also been chairman of the Committee for Environmental Policy of UN-ECE in Geneva, Switzerland. During his career Hugo has written many articles for (international) conferences and journals and a few books. He graduated from the Law School, Free University of Amsterdam in 1981, where he majored in public law and policies; several scientific positions.
Bedrich Moldan is a Professor at the Charles University in Prague and Director of the Environment Center; Senator of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. His experience includes, among others, research on indicators of sustainable development (published two monographs commissioned by SCOPE). He started his public life as the first Minister of Environment of the Czech Republic in 1990. He held various national and international positions, including Chairman of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (2001) and Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (2000–2006).
Richard Stewart is recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars in environmental and administrative law. Richard Stewart is University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Stewart has also served as a Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at Harvard Law School and a member of the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environment and Natural Resource Division of the US Department of Justice, and Chairman of the Environmental Defence Fund. He is currently leading a major project to examine international conflicts over regulation of genetically modified (GMO) crops and foods, Stewart assists in the United Nations’ efforts to combat global warming by developing a system for an international market in CO2 emissions reductions credits. He has also taken part in the U.N.’s formulation of principles to award damages from environmental injuries caused by Iraq during the Gulf War. A prolific author, Stewart has published 10 books and more than 80 articles on environmental and administrative law, including the intersection between theory and practice in environmental law and the need to develop innovative methods for environmental protection. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Bologna, Chicago, and Rome, the University of California at Berkeley, the European University Institute and Georgetown University.
