GLOBE Visitors
Current Honorary Associates and Visitors

Vicente Paolo Yu, 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.

Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Honorary Associate Professor
Dr Yilmaz Vastardis is Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School and the co-director of the Essex Business and Human Rights Project. Her main research interests are in the fields of international investment law and business and human rights. Her research addresses the relationship between corporate law, international investment law, human rights law, and tort law, examining how these areas can and should interact so as to operationalise human rights standards in the modern business context. She has published works in leading international law journals and edited collections on parent-subsidiary relationships in the business and human rights context, non-financial reporting, duty of care in supply chain relationships, human rights in investment contracts and the embedded inequalities in the investment treaty regime. Her book, The Nationality of Corporate Investors under International Investment Law, was published with Hart Publishing in 2020. Currently, she is researching the impact of international investment law on a just and equitable green transition, with a focus on energy transition and climate finance. She is a member of New Frontiers in International Development Finance and a Co-I on the BA funded Equity and the Global Climate Finance Architecture: An Evaluation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) Framework.

Dr Basani Baloyi, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study and the GLOBE Centre
Dr Baloyi is a Visiting Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and will be based at the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School. Dr Baloyi is Programme Co-Director at the Institute for Economic Justice, South Africa. In this role, she drives innovative work on industrial policy, green transitions and development finance, with a focus on socio-economic justice in the global south. Dr Baloyi holds a PhD in Economics from SOAS, UK and an MA in Public Policy and MCom in Economics from Wits University, South Africa.
Dr Baloyi has extensive policy and research experience in academia and the civil service in South Africa, including as Director of Industrial Policy and Acting Chief Director in the Industrial Procurement Unit at the Department of Trade and Industry. She has authored and edited publications on the South African political economy, development policy and climate finance, including The Evolving Structure of South Africa's Economy (2023), a significant contribution offering critical insights into South Africa’s economic landscape.During her visit, Dr Baloyi will collaborate on the Climate Finance for Equitable Transitions (CLiFT) project, specifically through providing insights and critiques on South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP), a climate finance initiative aimed at supporting developing countries in their shift to low-carbon economies.
Past Visitors

Professor Sol Picciotto, Honorary Professor
Picciotto is emeritus professor of Lancaster University. He is currently Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Tax and Development and a Senior Adviser of the Tax Justice Network, and coordinator of the BEPS Monitoring Group. He has taught at the Universities of Dar es Salaam (1964-8), Warwick (1968-1992), and Lancaster (1992-2007); and was Scientific Director of the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (2009-2011). He is the author of International Business Taxation (1992), Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (2011), several co-written books, and numerous chapters and articles on various international tax issues and other aspects of international business and economic law. Professor Picciotto is a long-standing friend of the Warwick Law School, having collaborated with us for many years.



Professor Stephanie de Moerloose
Stephanie de Moerloose is a Professor of International Development Cooperation at the Faculty of Law and of International Programmes at Austral University, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Stephanie is also a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Stephanie’s area of expertise is on international development finance and law, in particular relation to multilateral development banks.Enzamaria Tramontana
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