Prof. Dr. Christina Voigt LLM

Christina Voigt, Ph.D./Dr. jur. (Oslo, Norway), LL.M. Env. (Hons.1) (Auckland, New Zealand), Rechtswissenschaft/Law (Passau and Munich, Germany), is Full Professor of Law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway.  She is a leading expert in international environmental law and the author of numerous academic articles, a monograph, and several edited volumes. 

Professor Voigt is the chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and recipient of the First Junior Scholarship Prize of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, among other distinguished awards and honours. 

From 2009 to 2018, she served the Norwegian government as lead negotiator on REDD+ and as principal legal advisor in the UN climate change negotiations, negotiating, inter alia, the Paris Agreement and its Rulebook.

She was co-facilitator for the negotiations on the rules for the Paris Agreement´s Implementation and Compliance Committee (PAICC). In 2019, she was elected by the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) as a member of PAICC and serves currently as the Committee´s inaugural Co-Chair.

Professor Voigt is authorized as IUCN lead legal counsel in the climate change advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights and the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea.