Executive Chairman

Gabriel Eckstein is a professor of law at Texas A&M University School of Law where he teaches courses on US and international water, environmental, and natural resources law. At the School of Law, he serves as Director for both the Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources Systems Law Program and the Environmental & Natural Resources Clinic. At the university, he also holds affiliations with the University's Water Management and Hydrological Science Program, Energy Institute, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Public Service and Administration Department, Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy at The Bush School of Government and Public Service; and Center for Health Systems & Design, College of Architecture. Prior to joining Texas A&M University, Professor Eckstein held the George W. McCleskey Chair in Water Law at Texas Tech University where he also directed the Texas Tech University Center for Water Law & Policy. Professor Eckstein also directs the Internet-based International Water Law Project, and is the former President of the International Water Resources Association.

Eckstein regularly advises UN agencies, national and sub-national governments, NGOs, and other groups on international and US water and environmental issues. He also served as legal counsel to Bolivia in its case against Chile (over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala) before the International Court of Justice.

Professor Eckstein holds LL.M. and JD degrees from American University's Washington College of Law, M.S. in International Affairs from Kent State University. He is admitted to the bars of New York, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.