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JOANNE YAO Joanne Yao is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously, she taught at Durham University and the LSE, where she completed her PhD in 2017. In addition, she has worked in the US public sector and for international nongovernmental organizations including CARE International. Her research centers on environmental history and politics, historical international relations, international hierarchies and orders, and the development of early international organizations. Her first book,
The Ideal River (Manchester University Press, 2022) examines the construction of the "ideal river" in the European geographical imagination and the establishment of the first international organizations. Yao was also one of three editors of
Millennium: Journal of International Studies for Volume 43 (2014-2015) and is currently a member of Millennium's Board of Trustees.
LUDOVICA CHIUSSI CURZI Ludovica Chiussi Curzi (Phd, University of Oslo, University of Bologna), is Senior Assistant Professor in Public International Law at the University of Bologna, School of Law and Lead Trainer of the Course "Human Rights and the Environment" at the Geneva Academy for International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. She has been Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (UK), at the Columbia Centre for Sustainable Investment, Columbia University (New York) and at Sciences Po Law School (Paris). Curzi is Expert to the Office of the State Attorney of the Republic of Italy in cases before the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in Investor-State arbitration. She has worked as legal assistant and counsel before international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Her book "Corporations and Human Rights Under General Principles of Law" was published with Brill Nijhoff in 2020.
