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Matthew Bird

Matthew Bird is a Climate and Sustainability professional with 25 years of experience at local authorities and other community organisations and as a District and Town Councillor.

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Alex Putzer

Alex researches the theory, analysis, and implementation of rights of nature in cities. As a UN Harmony with Nature Expert and member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, he co-developed the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor, the world’s leading database tracking rights of nature. He holds a PhD from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and has been a…

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Léa Corbière

Léa Corbière grew up on the shores of Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. She has a master’s degree in transdisciplinary political science on risk management and adaptation to climate change and a master’s specialising in environmental law from the universities of Paris: Panthéon-Sorbonne and Panthéon-Assas. She works on pesticide risk regulation and, more…

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Nuvola Ravera

Nuvola Ravera explores how emotions are influenced by objects and cultural traditions, aiming for harmony between nature and human-made environments. She collaborates with various experts and uses natural materials to create art pieces that examine the experience of care.

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Aleksandra Velimanović

Aleksandra Velimanović, master in the field of integrated management of natural resources, has been in the civil sector for 25 years, and since 2006 one of the founders and members of the citizens’ association “NIMBUS” from Loznica.

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Tina Jelia

Tina Jelia is a literary researcher and poet exploring the body as a confluence of traces and an epistemic agent that archives knowledge voided from dominant cultural frameworks. Both as a researcher and an author, she approaches poetry as an embodied practice that can disrupt calcified oppressive structures and help us attend to the mutual…

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Marijana Lemm

Marijana is one of the co-founders of Sentient, with a background in environmental activism, regenerative agriculture, and the establishment of Montenegro’s first eco yoga retreat.

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Dr Marian Bruce

After spending many years in academic research, Marian founded Highland Boundary, Scotland’s first botanical spirits distillery in 2016, where she is director and master distiller. Award- winning Highland Boundary spirits are produced on her small, re-wilded family farm at Kirklandbank in Alyth, Perthshire where she also manages livestock, holiday rental and sculpture businesses. She was also Enterprise Manager…

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Jakob Kukula

Jakob Kukula is a multidisciplinary creator, working in the fields of art, design, and music. Born and raised in Berlin, he is life-long influenced by the city’s thriving scenes.

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Thomas De Ming

Thomas De Ming is a RangeMaker, and his mission is to contribute to the transition to a sustainable society by helping us all get more range: to be able to think beyond, go further and last longer.

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Teresa Vicente Giménez

Teresa Vicente Giménez is Professor of Philosophy of Law. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Cooperation and Development Studies (CECODE) at the Universidad de Murcia.

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Pieter Ippel

Pieter Ippel (1953) was a professor of law at Utrecht University and in Middelburg (Zeeland). He also worked at several other universities and was a government lawyer in The Hague. He is the author of a book about the growth of environmental and health law from the 1970s onward.

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Andrea Muehlebach

Andrea Muehlebach is a Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water at the University of Bremen. She is the author of “A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in Europe” and is currently involved in a book-length project on the rights of nature movement and its relation to what many proponents call “Earth Law.” Here, she…

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Duncan Rawson

Duncan Rawson is farming sector expert. He works for European Food and Farming Partnerships.

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Clare Cooper

Clare is an independent creative producer, working across the fields of culture, nature restoration and tourism. She is co-founder and co-director of Tayside’s ‘museum without walls’, the Cateran Ecomuseum and with her sister, operates Vanora’s Cottages. Previously a member of Alyth Community Council and a founding Director of the Alyth Development Trust, she also served on the Local Action…

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Emma Montlake

Emma Montlake is the Director of Casework at Environmental Law Foundation and the grassroots legal support lead with a focus on the Rights of River.

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Emilie Reuchlin

Emilie Reuchlin is the co-founder and managing director of the Doggerland Foundation. She is a marine biologist and political scientist with 15 years of experience in marine conservation in the international North Sea.

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Katja Schechtner

Katja develops technologies and strategies for cities seeking to serve all their inhabitants. Since 2022, she has been researching urban rights of nature at MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, while also being affiliated with the Media Lab’s City Science Group and the Senseable City Lab. Her executive career spans leadership roles within innovation, technology, and mobility…

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Karmit EvenZur

Karmit is an artist, facilitator and cultural manager whose practice revolves around the dynamic interactions between humans and the non-human world. With deep attentiveness to subtle narratives of people and land, she fabulates social practices that invite us to renew our connection to, as well as re-imagine our role as custodians of the places we…

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Gert-Jan Stam

Gert-Jan Stam has a background in visual arts and theatre and is currently mostly interested in ‘multispecies cocreation’. He is co-founder of the transdisciplinary arts collective TAAT. Their practice is rooted in the interplay between architecture and theatre, which has evolved to creating ecosystems of encounter, shifting between artistic research, social practice and regenerative learning.…

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Francesco Martone

Francesco Martone is chair of the Assembly of Judges of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature and co-founder of the artistic research platform A4CArtsforthecommons.

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Marie-Dominique Loÿe

Marie-Dominique Loÿe is a former teacher-researcher at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her scientific work was dedicated to geology, surface water, and atmospheric deposition chemistry in Corsica and around the Mediterranean Sea. She has been teaching on geology and “environment and society”. Now she is involved in environmental struggles in Corsica, especially in the defense…

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Nils Richterich

Nils Richterich is a sociologist based at the research training group “Fixing Future” (University of Frankfurt am Main), where he works on more-than-human sociology of inequality, environmental sociology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). In his dissertation, he investigates the question of what is required to establish different forms of the rights of nature.

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Erena Rhose

Erena Rhöse is a Māori woman native of Aotearoa (New Zealand) and living in Sweden. Erena is guardian of the tribal knowledge, a doctor of traditional Maori medicine, professor of Ecosophy at the University of Karlstad, Sweden.

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Ana Džakić

Ana Džakić is born in 1985 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Secondary School of Architecture and is currently employed full-time in the energy sector. A mother of two, she has been a long-time environmental activist and is the legal representative of the NGO White Heron 1165 – Bela Čaplja 1165 from Belgrade. She is…

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Carmen Haro Barba

Carmen Haro Barba holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Social Sciences and is a professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, where she was awarded the Special Doctoral Prize. She is an expert with the United Nations “Harmony with Nature” Program, where she helps promote international frameworks that incorporate the Rights of Nature. In Spain, she…

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Anja Binkofski

Anja Binkofski is a Doctoral Candidate at the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven, Germany. She studied Transcultural Studies (M.A.) at the University of Bremen, where she found her passion for Maritime Anthropology. This resulted in her Thesis: “Living with(out) the North Sea – Future Planning on the Halligen in the Age…

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Natalia Llorente Nosti

Natalia Llorente Nosti is a mother, biologist, technical translator and socio-environmental consultant. Throughout her professional career she has focused on the management of water resources and river ecosystems.

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Nico Landsman

Nico Landsman (1955) formerly worked for the Province of Zeeland in water management and climate adaptation. He is inspired by Western Scheldt itself, philosophy, Western academic knowledge, Indigenous wisdom, and generations yet to be born. He is connected to the Earth Trusteeship Initiative, which triggered him to start Rights of the de Scheldt as a…

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Sabina Candusso

Sabina Candusso, 28, is currently living in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where her profession as a cultural and visual anthropologist merges with intense activity in communications and environmental justice. Here she works in support of Indigenous communities’ advocacy against aggressive extractive industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her commitment to water justice is deeply rooted in her…

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Giga Tsikarishvili

Giga Tsikarishvili is a multidisciplinary artist and architect. Merging material intervention with posthumanist theory, he researches the affective traces and ecological wounds left on landscapes by extractive forces. Through teaching and site-specific speculative design, he challenges dominant urban and architectural practices. He seeks to heal nature-culture entanglements and foster deep, physical attunement with traumatised environments.

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Rosa Jijón

Rosa Jijón is an artist, activist and cultural mediator, former director of the CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito), CAC. She has participated in various international exhibitions.

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Carolijn Terwindt

Dr. Carolijn Terwindt (1979) is a lawyer, cultural anthropologist, author, and artist who joined the Embassy of the North Sea in 2021 to explore the possibility of creating a European network to strengthen the cultural transformation towards a real participation of nonhumans in politics.

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Li An Phoa

Li An Phoa (1980) is the founder of the Drinkable Rivers movement. Over the past ten years, she has walked 21,000 kilometres along rivers; the Meuse river walk was the subject of the documentary Long Walk for Drinkable Rivers. She is the author of the book ‘Drinkable Rivers: How the River Becomes My Teacher’.

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Cecylia Malik

Cecylia Malik is is visual artist and environmental activist. She is part of the Save the Rivers Coalition. She is the author and the leader of the nationwide social campaign and collective ‘River Sisters’.

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Léon Gross

Léon Gross is an urban designer, artist, educator, and sustainability researcher working at the intersection of water, ecology, and spatial justice. His practice combines artistic research with questions of urban transformation, participatory knowledge production, and more-than-human relationships. As co-lead of the Berlin-based design and research studio Symbiotic Lab, he develops transdisciplinary projects on urban waters,…

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Jessica Ullevålseter

Jessica Ullevålseter is a visual artist, activist and musician. Her family lineage is of ancestral bonds to the Oslo area that date back more than 400 years. However, as a white Westerner, she cannot claim emotional and spiritual family bonds to the place.

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Rita Bellomo       

Rita Bellomo is a former High School teacher. She is still working in the educational field as volunteer, planning and scheduling lessons and activities for the local Free Adult University operating in an area which comprises five municipalities. Next to that, she runs Italian language courses for immigrants, cooperating also with organisations which take care…

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Maria Lucia Cruz Correia

Lucia is a water keeper, artist and the initiator of the Natural Contract Lab group. Since 2009, her work has reacted to the environmental crises of our times, weaving temporary and collaborative processes that are a living organism that keeps growing in kinship with rivers, resilient plants, trees and others.

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Juan Pablo Pacheco

Juan Pablo Pacheco is an artist, researcher, and educator from Colombia based in Madrid, and a member of the Assembly of Guardians of the Manzanares River. He has been researching and working with the Manzanares river through listening practices, audiovisual experimentation, and collective pedagogies through projects like Redes Húmedas en el Museo (2024) with Marina…

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Ingrid de Vries

Ingrid de Vries (1972) worked for a chemical company at the decision support and control department, after graduating at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). In between calculating cost prices, she launched a waste management project. She often found herself at the wastewater treatment plant, talking with the operator about how the bacteria were “eating” the chemical…

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Zoe Lujic

Zoe Lujic is a rights of Nature advocate and founder of Earth Thrive, international organisation working on ensuring respect & establishment or Rights of Nature in the Balkans & Mediterranean bioregions with experience also in the international law of Ecocide and permaculture. Currently developing Balkan Centre for the Rights of Nature and the Declaration on the Rights of the...

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Martin Hultman

Martin Hultman, Associate Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, is widely published in energy, climate, and environmental issues in a variety of journals and more than ten books. His work has been translated into seven languages. Hultman leads three research groups analyzing ‘masculinities and energy’, ‘rights of nature’, and ‘climate change denial’. He…

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Robert Rient

Robert Rient initiated the recognition of the Odra River as a legal person and established the Odra Tribe. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of the Odra Person Foundation, a Member of the International Observatory for the Rights of Nature, Save the Rivers Coalition, and Literary Union Association. He also acts as…

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Pedro Luengo Michel

Pedro Luengo Michel is a biologist from the University of Murcia. His professional career began with environmental consultancy and in charge of a cheese laboratory.

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Josh Levene

Josh Levene has a background in anthropology and ecological design, with over 25 years of experience working with river-based communities in Africa, South Asia, and the UK.

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Anna Chmiel

Anna Chmiel is a painter, multimedia artist, and key member of the Rivers Sisters collective from 2019. She seamlessly combines art with activism for nature, especially rivers.

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Vinny Jones

Vinny's practice of sensory scenography is based on the recognition that it is through the whole sensing body that we perceive, experience, and are connected in the world.

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Thomas Laurien

Thomas Laurien is a designer/artist, curator, researcher and educator based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Design and works as a senior lecturer/associate professor at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design at the University of Gothenburg.

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Letizia Artioli

Letizia Artioli is an architect and researcher based between Venice and Den Haag, always below sea level. She is currently working on Data Turbulences, Flooding Voids, and Weathering Spaces. Her work focuses on investigating the relationship between human beings and environmental data as a matter for research and creation, entangling archives of dichotomies between immaterial…