Thierry Berger

Associate, Natural Resources

Thierry Berger is an associate with IIED's legal tools team. He has been collaborating closely as a consultant with the legal tools team since September 2013 – conducting research, co-authoring reports, running legal tools webinar series and contributing to the team's international capacity support and lesson sharing work.

Full biography

For example he has participated in a water team-led demand assessment mission to Niger, took part in a scoping study on mechanisms to secure rights in land use investments in Western Africa and co-authored analytical papers on legacy land issues, legal empowerment and development finance institutions as part of Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) and academic papers on land in international investment law and dispute settlement.

Expertise

Thierry is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and a French lawyer. He is focusing on law and sustainable development.

Before IIED

Prior to his collaboration with IIED, Thierry worked for global law firms for 10 years, specialising in international arbitration.

He re-focused his career to make a contribution to addressing global development and environmental issues. To that end, Thierry did an LLM in global environment and climate change law at the University of Edinburgh.

Current work

Thierry is playing key research roles in the ‘Advancing Land-based Investment Governance (ALIGN)’ and 'Empowering Producers in Commercial agriculture (EPIC)' initiatives and a project studying land and socio economic impacts of special economic zones, and he is supporting a coalition of CSOs in Guinea to harmonise the country’s mining and land legislation with international human rights standards. Thierry is the engine of the legal tools webinar series, liaising with speakers and ensuring good delivery.