Former Chair, International Association for Water Law (AIDA)

Chair, Water and Wetlands Specialist Group, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL)

Stefano Burchi is an expert in comparative and international freshwater law. He holds law degrees from La Sapienza University of Rome and from Harvard Law School, and a M.Sc. from the University of Michigan. He has made a career as water law specialist in the Development Law Service of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Since retiring from FAO in 2008, Mr. Burchi has taken up a variety of water law consultancies, and has also chaired the International Association for Water Law (AIDA). He currently chairs the Water and Wetlands Law Specialist Group of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL). He is the author of numerous published articles and publications on the law of freshwater resources, domestic and transboundary.