UPDATE: Simone Borg is the first female law professor in UM's Faculty of Laws. Earlier in 2019, Frances Camilleri-Cassar was also promoted to full professor in the same faculty. In the latter's case, her academic training lies in the social sciences.
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Professor Simone Borg LL.D, LL.M. (Int law), Ph.D (IMLI), who joined UM in 2009, is chair of the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development and Head of the Department of Environmental and Resources Law at UM. She lectures in International law and is the director for the International Master of Arts Programme on Ocean Governance. She is also a visiting lecturer at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute, located on the UM campus grounds.
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Professor Simone Borg LL.D, LL.M. (Int law), Ph.D (IMLI), who joined UM in 2009, is chair of the Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development and Head of the Department of Environmental and Resources Law at UM. She lectures in International law and is the director for the International Master of Arts Programme on Ocean Governance. She is also a visiting lecturer at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute, located on the UM campus grounds.
Professor Borg started her career as a diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malta and then headed the Multilateral Department within the Ministry of the Environment from 1992 to 2004. She was Malta’s chief negotiator in various Environmental Multilateral Agreements, and also drafted national environmental law and policy. She coordinated the transposition of the environmental acquis communautaire before Malta’s EU membership and was appointed Malta’s Ambassador for Climate Action in 2010. During Malta’s tenure of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, she chaired the EU group on climate negotiations. She chaired the first Governing Board of the Malta Occupational Health and Safety Authority. She is currently Malta’s Chef de File at the Summit of the Two Shores Initiative in the Mediterranean.
Prof Borg’s academic and practical expertise in international law, ocean governance, climate law and environmental law led to her being appointed in a leading role in various projects with the Maltese government, the European Union, the United Nations and academic networks. Prof Borg is a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and one of the experts on the European Union’s Horizon 2020 SC 5 Advisory Group on climate action. Her published books include the monograph Conservation of Living Marine Resources on the High Seas, and various other articles and papers on environmental law, climate change law and ocean governance. In 2017, she received the French National Order of Merit for her work as a diplomat on climate action in Malta and within the international community.