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A distinguished environmental lawyer, Liza Eisma-Osorio is currently the Senior Director for Campaigns, Legal and Policy of Oceana in the Philippines working on strategic, directed campaigns in the Philippines to ensure protection of oceans through science-based fisheries management and policy reforms. She has more than 25 years of extensive work experience in natural resources law and policy. She is also a law professor at the University of Cebu School of Law and San Sebastian College Recoletos Graduate School of Law.
She is a co-founder and formerly Managing Trustee of the Philippine Earth Justice Center where several environmental cases were filed in the Philippines, including the landmark case of Resident Marine Mammals and Dolphins vs. Secretary of the Department of Energy where she is one of the two lawyers recognized by the Supreme Court as the human stewards of the whales and cetaceans of Tañon Strait Protected Seascape. In 2019, she made history as the first Asian Chairperson to lead the International Union for Conservation of Nature – Academy of Environmental Law (IUCNAEL), and served for four years until 2023.
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