Claudia S. de Windt | |
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| Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute of Justice and Sustainability | |
| Assumed office June 2019 | |
| Head of the Environmental Law,Policy,and Good Governance Section of the Organization of American States | |
| In office 2008 –August 2018 | |
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| Born | Santo Domingo,Dominican Republic |
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| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Website | www |
Claudia Sofia de Windt Vicente is a Dominican international environmental lawyer and political scientist.
Claudia S. de Windt was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[ citation needed ] Her grandfather, Admiral César de Windt Lavandier , inspired her interest in nature. She studied law at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), earned a master's degree in international legal studies from the Washington College of Law, and a certificate in negotiation from Harvard Law School. [1]
She was granted her license to practice law in the Dominican Republic in June 2000. [2]
In 2001, de Windt began working at the Department of Sustainable Development and the Secretariat for Multidimensional Security of the Organization of American States (OAS), [1] directing initiatives for legislative reform, [3] [4] justice, [5] sustainability, [6] environmental law, [7] and its relationship to human rights in the Americas. [8] She has worked on proposals for business standards and practices to ensure sustainability without losing sight of mitigating climate change. [6]
She made oral arguments regarding the request of the Republic of Colombia for an advisory opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the interpretation of various articles of the American Convention on Human Rights, addressing its environmental implications and ramifications. [9] [10]
At OAS, she was head of the Environmental Law, Policy, and Good Governance section, and a principal specialist in environmental security and justice. [1] As a senior adviser, she led various political processes and negotiations on sustainability at the multilateral and hemispheric level. [11]
De Windt has co-authored several legislative proposals in the Americas, including the General Environmental Law of the Dominican Republic and its regulations. [12] [13] In 2015, she was part of the Environment Commission that worked on updating Mexico's environmental legal framework at the Federal Senate level. [14] This work continued in other countries in the region, such as Brazil. [15] She has been involved in policy processes and negotiations on sustainability, both in the Inter-American system and the United Nations. [16]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, de Windt proposed solutions from environmental law to address pandemics in the Americas, collaborating with the World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL), including the launch of its first webinar in Spanish. [17]
In April 2020, together with former Paraguayan Justice Minister Sheila Abed and Ecuadorian environmental expert María Amparo Albán, de Windt founded the Inter-American Institute of Justice and Sustainability (IIJS), an organization based in Washington, D.C., with a presence in several cities in the Americas. She was appointed its executive director on World Environment Day, 5 June 2020.
De Windt is an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law. [18]
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