Phoebe Okowa is Professor of Public International Law at Queen Mary, University of London and a Member of the United Nations International Law Commission.  Educated at the University of Nairobi and the University of Oxford, she previously taught at the University of Bristol  and has held visiting appointments at the University of Lille and Stockholm.  In 2011 and 2015, she was Global Visiting Professor at New York University, School of Law. An advocate of the High Court of Kenya,  She has undertaken extensive advisory work for governments including as Counsel before the International Court of Justice and International Tribunal for Law of the Sea (ITLOS). She is on the Public International Law Advisory Panel of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the Committee of Legal Experts of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS).  She has written on a wide range of contemporary international law topics including the interface between state responsibility and individual accountability for international crimes; Africa and the International Criminal Court; Unilateral and collective responses to protection of natural resources in conflict zones and aspects of the protection of the environment.