Ms. Beatrice Olivastri, Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Earth Canada, Ottawa, Canada (Beatrice.olivastri@gmail.com)

Ms. Beatrice Olivastri is the Chief Executive Officer, Friends of the Earth Canada (FOE) which includes, among many activities, representing FOE in pesticide management regulatory processes before the PMRA and as Intervenor in nine Supreme Court of Canada cases in recent years and two Ontario Court of Appeal matters. She is an accomplished charity executive and environmental advocate with more than 40 years of national and international experience using policy development, public engagement and legal remedies to address environmental injustice including climate chaos, biodiversity loss, pollution and protection of environmental rights.

Ms. Olivastri is also a member of the Steering Committee for Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency’s Transformation Agenda and a consultant addressing use of environmentally sound technology including:

• the OECD Pollution Prevention Directorate in assessing key drivers for adoption of environmentally sound technology by small and medium enterprise;
• the Organization of American States to address barriers to the adoption of environmentally sound technology by small and medium enterprise;
• Canada’s International Development Agency for two design missions to China to develop Canada-China initiatives supporting environmentally sound technology;
• the International Institute for Sustainable Development to design and deliver a program to engage small and medium-size enterprises in benefitting from sustainable development approaches.

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David M. Forman, Professor of Law at William S. Richardson School of Law (WSRSL) University of Hawai‘i(dmforman@hawaii.edu)

David M. Forman is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Environmental Law Program (ELP), William S. Richardson School of Law (WSRSL), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, previously serving as solo director from July 2011 through June 2022. He became one of the Law School’s first tenured faculty member of Filipino descent in August 2020 as a Faculty Specialist (serving both ELP and the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law) and received official notice of his reclassification to Full Professor with tenure effective August 2023. He is co-editor of Legal Actions for Future Generations (Peter Lang 2021), the first volume of the Normandy Chair for Peace collection on Future Generations, Peace & Environment, along with more recent publications including a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook on Commons Research Innovations (Cambridge Univ. Press 2022), entitled “A Biotechnology ‘Regulatory Commons’ Problem.” He is also primary organizer of a unique, collaborative exercise called the Tony Oposa Intergenerational Moot Court, which debuted during the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress (Honolulu, Hawai‘i). This innovative moot has since taken place five additional times in the Philippines, Brazil, France, and Malaysia, as well as virtually.

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CONFERENCE CHAIR AND COORDINATOR:

Alessandra Guida (Queen’s University Belfast-School of Law) (no photos and bios)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

Paolo Davide Farah (West Virginia University, USA & gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, United Kingdom), Chamu Kuppuswamy (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom), Martin Svec (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic), Daria Boklan (HSE University), Mariagiovanna Pais, PhD student, Queen’s University Belfast-School of Biological Sciences