Faculty
Professor Richard B. Stewart – Co-Director, Global Climate Finance Project
Professor Stewart is University Professor and John Edward Sexton Professor of Law at New York University, Chair and Faculty Director of the Hauser Global Law School Program, and Director of NYU’s Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law. Stewart is an internationally recognized scholar in environmental law and policy and administrative law and regulation. During 1989-1991 Stewart served as Assistant Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led the development of the U.S. position on the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change. Prior to joining the Justice Department, he taught at the Harvard Law School and Kennedy School of Government for 18 years, and practiced law with the Washington D.C. firm of Covington & Burling. He also served as Special Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee and as a law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court. Stewart is a graduate of Yale University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Professor Benedict Kingsbury – Co-Director, Global Climate Finance Project
Professor Kingsbury is Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ) at New York University School of Law. With Richard Stewart, he initiated and directs the IILJ’s Global Administrative Law Research Project, Together with anthropology professor Sally Engle Merry and development law professor Kevin Davis, Kingsbury has recently launched the IILJ’s new project on Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance, with research conferences in Bogota and at NYU in 2010 funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Kingsbury previously held a permanent teaching position at Oxford University (where he earlier completed an M.Phil in International Relations and a D.Phil in Law on indigenous peoples issues), and has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Tokyo Law Faculty, the University of Padua, and the University of Paris-I (Pantheon-Sorbonne).
Fellows
Bryce Rudyk – Co-ordinator, Global Climate Finance Project
Bryce Rudyk, NYU LLM ’08 is working on climate change law and policy. His research focuses on financial mechanisms and architectures to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions on both the domestic and international levels and the corresponding regulatory and institutional structures. In collaboration with several faculty, research fellows, and students, Bryce helped lead preparations for the “Climate Change: Financing Green Development” conference in Abu Dhabi, May 2009 and co-edited the book that emerged from the conference and co-wrote the lead chapter. He is currently continuing to research and write on climate finance and its governance.
Kiri Mattes – Fellow, Global Climate Finance Project
Kiri Mattes, NYU LLM ’10 undertook research focused on issues of international governance, particularly in the field of climate finance. Prior to coming to NYU, Kiri worked as a Senior Solicitor at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office in Australia, with a practice spanning administrative, constitutional and criminal law.
Gonzalo Moyano – Non-Resident Fellow, Global Climate Finance Project
Gonzalo Moyano, NYU LLM ’09 was a Nonresident Fellow for the Climate Finance Initiative. His research focusesd on the role of advanced developing economies in the creation of decentralized mechanisms for climate finance. Gonzalo also worked on the expansion of the Climate Finance initiative in Latin America. He was also a Legal Fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity.
Toni Moyes – Fellow, Global Climate Finance Project
Toni Moyes is policy analyst for the New Zealand Treasury, and was formerly a Senior Adviser on international climate change policy at the Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand. She is a former Fellow at the Center for Environmental and Land Use Law, where her research focused on mechanisms for financing climate change mitigation and adaptation. Her areas of interest include the design of international and domestic emissions trading regimes, and challenges and opportunities presented to developing countries in the international climate regime. She completed an LL.M. at NYU as a Fulbright and Vanderbilt Scholar, and has Bachelors degrees in Laws and Arts from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She previously practiced corporate law at Russell McVeagh, New Zealand.
James Chapman – Fellow, Global Climate Finance Project
James Chapman, NYU LLM ’09 worked on climate change law and policy and nuclear waste regulation during his time as a fellow at the Frank J. Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law in 2009. His research focused on links between emissions trading schemes, climate finance generally and nuclear waste law. James helped with updating and editing a book on nuclear waste law and policy in the United States by Professor Richard Stewart and Jane Stewart. He also worked on the ongoing climate finance project and alternative approaches to nuclear waste management. After his fellowship, James started a training contract in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
