Professor Jackie Peel is a world-leading expert in international climate law and climate litigation. She is a professor of law at the Melbourne Law School in Australia and was the inaugural Director of Melbourne Climate Futures — the University of Melbourne’s cross-disciplinary climate initiative.

Professor Peel served as a Lead Author on Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its Sixth Assessment Report, directed the Hague Academy of International Law’s first ever climate change course and co-chaired the American Society of International Law’s signature initiative on climate change, amongst other roles. As the recipient of the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Award in addition to her Laureate fellowship, Professor Peel is committed to mentoring a next generation of climate leaders and scholars in climate litigation, with a focus on female early career researchers from the Global South.