Daniela DizDaniela Diz is a Bicentennial Associate Professor at the Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University. Daniela has over 20 years of experience in the field of environmental law and oceans governance. Her main research area focuses on marine biodiversity lawand policy at multiple governance scales. She is involved in international processes related to the law of the sea, marine biodiversity and fisheries, and often conducts studies on these themes for UN agencies, governments, and civil society. She has developed a step-wise guide for the implementation of international legal and policy instruments related to deep-sea fisheries and biodiversity conservation in the areas beyond national jurisdiction with FAO with a view to facilitate the incorporation of relevant international policy and law into national legislation. She has been involved in the negotiations of the BBNJ Agreement, and has been contributing to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) decisions on marine and coastal biodiversity, ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSA), Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework by providing expert advice, including through background reports and papers to UN bodies, States and observers. Daniela has been involved with the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization since 2010, and has been contributing as an expert to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) on issues such as vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). She is a member of the IUCN-Fisheries Expert Group and the IUCN-World Commission on Environmental Law, and a member of the CBD EBSA Informal Advisory Group. Read More Read Less