Warwick Law School News

Warwick Law School and the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Vicente Paolo Yu as Honorary Professorial Fellow.

Vicente Paolo Yu is an experienced and highly respected international lawyer, policy advisor and negotiator and scholar on international economic and environmental law. He works as an independent expert and consultant for various United Nations agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). He is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Third World Network (TWN), Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Previously, he served as the Deputy Executive Director of the South Centre and coordinated the South Centre’s work on global governance, climate change, investment, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development issues.

Mr Yu has a long-standing relationship with the University of Warwick. He has been part of the development of The IEL Collective, an initiative that is hosted at WLS and of which WLS has been leading since 2019 and is currently working with Professor Celine Tan on a British Academy-funded project Equity and the Global Climate Finance Architecture: An Evaluation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) Framework which is part of a wider project on Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLIFT). He has also been contributing to the development of the Warwick Network for Equity and Exchange in Climate Governance and Strategy (NEXUS), a strategic platform for climate governance and policy research.

Mr Yu will be contributing to the general research, policy impact and teaching environment at the University of Warwick and to support the development and progression of the research and policy-related work on multilateral climate change.

Welcome to Warwick Vicente!