Dr. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf
Attorney
Coordinator International Governance
Senior Fellow
Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute and coordinates the institute’s international governance programme. With a background in international and European law, his work focuses on climate change, international governance and sustainable development. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf deals particularly with negotiating a future climate change regime, climate change policies in the new EU Member States and the links between international trade and climate change policies. He has worked extensively on international environmental governance reform and on sustainable development issues, such as economic transformation and indicator development. Nils also works on environmental justice and the security and development implications of international environmental policies. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf works in German, English and Spanish.
Before joining Ecologic, Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf worked at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear safety (Unit "EU Co-ordination") where he was responsible for the EU-Enlargement negotiations (Energy and Environment Chapter). The EU-Sustainable Development Strategy and the Convention on the Future of the EU were other important parts of his portfolio.
Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf studied law at Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel and Humboldt Universität Berlin, with a concentration in European and International law. He completed his legal clerkship in 1999, at UNEP in Nairobi. In his PhD thesis, Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf analyzed whether the International Court of Justice has the authority to control the UN-Security Council.
Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf is co-founder and deputy director of Democracy Reporting International, a Berlin-based NGO promoting democratic governance worldwide. He has worked as legal advisor to various EU- and OSCE-election observation missions in South America, the Caucasus and the Balkans.
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Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute and coordinates the institute’s international governance programme. With a background in international and European law, his work focuses on climate change, international governance and sustainable development. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf deals particularly with negotiating a future climate change regime, climate change policies in the new EU Member States and the links between international trade and climate change policies. He has worked extensively on international environmental governance reform and on sustainable development issues, such as economic transformation and indicator development. Nils also works on environmental justice and the security and development implications of international environmental policies. Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf works in German, English and Spanish.
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