JERZY JENDROŚKA

Ph.D, Director of Environmental Law Center and Managing Partner at Jendrośka Jerzmański Bar and Partners. Environmental Lawyers (JJB), and Adjunct Professor and Director of European Environmental Law Post-Graduate Studies at Opole University. He has been heavily involved in a number of international negotiations, including serving as the Vice-Chair of the SEA Protocol negotiations (2001-2003) and Aarhus Convention negotiations (1996-1998), as the Secretary to the Aarhus Convention (1998-1999) and as the vice-Chair (1999-2002) and later the Chair (2002-2003) of the Aarhus Convention Bureau. He currently serves as an arbitrator at the Permanent Court of Arbitrage in the Hague (since 2002) and as a member of the Implementation Committee of the Espoo Convention (since 2004) and Aarhus Compliance Committee (since 2005). He was a member of National EIA Commision in Poland (1994-2008). He drafted EIA/SEA and Aarhus-related legislation in Poland and was involved in EIA/SEA and Aarhus -related law-drafting or capacity-building in Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Czech Republic, Cyprus,, Croatia, Kyrgistan, Tadjlkistan and Ukraine.

He has authored and/or edited 29 books and more than 250 articles on environmental law. Mr. Jendroska obtained his Master of Laws from Wroclaw University and Ph.D. from the Institute of Law at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He also received a Diploma in International Law from the Vienna University Summer School.