- Olivier DE SCHUTTER, Coordinator
Olivier De Schutter is professor of Law at the University catholique de Louvain, professor at the College of Europe (Natolin-Poland), visiting professor of Law at the Columbia University, and visiting professor at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University. His research areas are European Law, Fundamental Rights and the right to food. He served as UN Special rapporteur on the right to food (May 2008–May 2014). He is co-chair of IPES-Food, and co-promotor of the Louvain Partnership Research on Ecological and Social Transition.
- Tom DEDEURWAERDERE, Co-promoter
Tom Dedeurwaerdere is professor of philosophy of science and theory of governance at the University catholique de Louvain and director of the Biodiversity Governance Unit (BIOGOV) at the Centre for Philosophy of Law (CPDR). He has been involved in EU collaborative FP7 projects and was granted in 2011 a European Council Research grant (Gencommons Institutionalizing global genetic-resource commons). He is co-promotor of the Louvain Partnership Research on Ecological and Social Transition (LPTransition).
Jose Luis Vivero Pol is an agricultural engineer. He joined the BIOGOV Unit of the CPDR in 2012 and obtained a Phd in Agronomy in October 2017. His research interests are the governance of food systems considered as a common and the motivations and leadership for transition towards sustainable systems. He has fourteen years of previous experience in biodiversity and food security actions in developing countries.
Thomas Bleeckx is a research associate at BIOGOV unit, involved in projects linked to the goverance of sustainable food systems, mainly working on the Food4Sustainability. He holds a master in Agricultural Bioengineering from the Université catholique de Louvain. His primary area of expertise has been the study of agro-biodiversity with a focus on the socio-economic factors that influence it.
Sibylle Bui is a sociologist, with background in agronomy. Her main research interests are transitions of agri-food systems towards agroecology and territorial dynamics. For the Food4Sustainability project, she studies initiatives aiming at introducing local products in supermarkets, to further investigate the issues of governance and power reconfiguration in transition processes.
Ionara da Costa holds a PhD in Science and Technology policy. She is associated researcher at the University of Campinas (Brazil). From June 2011 to July 2014, she worked as Marie Curie fellow at the Centre for Research in Innovation Management (CENTRIM) at the University of Brighton, UK. In January 2016, she joined the Biodiversity Governance Unit (BIOGOV) at the Center for Philosophy of Law (UCL), as post-doctoral researcher during two years (01/2016-01/2018) and currently as associated researcher. Her research interests include interdisciplinary studies, particularly related to the role played by business actors in sustainability transitions.
Charlotte de Callataÿ holds a master in Law and in Economy. She joined the Human Right unit (CRIDHO) and the BIOGOV unit of the Center fro Philosophy of Law in October 2014, as doctoral researcher. Her main research interests include food with a view to economic and social transition of our society.
Paula Fernández-Wulff is a Ph.D. candidate in law at UCL working on the role of social innovations in the localization of social rights with a particular focus on sustainable food systems. Her research interests include the local implementation of economic and social rights and critical perspectives on human rights more broadly. Trained as a lawyer at Complutense University and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she also holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Governance from United Nations University.
- Thibault GOURLEZ DE LA MOTTE (worked on the project from March to August 2014)
Thibault holds a Master of Economics, Law and Business studies (KUL) and a Master of Laws (Ulg). He wrote a thesis on the precautionary principle in European law. His research area is on governance for the transition to sustainability.
Administrative staff
- Anne LIESSE, coordinatrice administrative de projets de recherche
- Caroline VAN SCHENDEL, secrétaire de recherche