CURRENT POSITIONS

Centre for Law and Development (CLD), College of Law, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Aug. 1, 2021 –Present

• Research Assistant Professor of Public Law;
• Conducting research on topics related to international public law; international environmental law; sustainable development; artificial intelligence; financial regulations; Blockchain; natural resources management…
• Courses taught: International Environmental Law; International Human Rights Law
• Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module and convenor of the environmental law component of the second course of the Module.
• Member of the Academic Affairs Committee.
• Member of the College of Law Ranking Committee.
• Member of the Innovative Ideas Team.

gLAWcal – Global Law Initiative for Sustainable Development, Essex, United Kingdom, July 2014 – Present

• Research Associate and Project Manager, http://www.glawcal.org.uk/our-team/imad-antoine-ibrahim
• Researching, publishing peer-review articles in journals and chapters with international publishers.
• Consultancy for international organizations, Governments and Public and Private Sector companies.
• Monitoring policy developments in the area of sustainable development in general, and in key areas of gLAWcal advocacy work, such as energy, climate change and environmental matters.
• Drafting project proposals for external funding applications. Translations and language revisions for scholars from China and other countries.
• External reviewer for gLAWcal book series on Transnational Governance and special issues.

BeryTech (The Ecosystem of Entrepreneurs), Water and Energy for Food (WE4F): A Grand Challenge for Development, Aug. 19, 2021–June. 30, 2022

• Expert Service Provider for Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by The Berytech Foundation (Berytech), https://we4f.org/program-news/call-for-expression-of-interest-eoi-from-service-providers
• Furnishing and delivering all items and/or perform all the services identified in any call orders issued under the Blanket Purchase Agreement No. BERYTECH 0025.

Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Legal Office of FAO, Oct. 15, 2020–Oct. 15, 2022

• Development Law Specialist within the Development Law Service of the Legal Office (LEGN).
• Advising countries on possibilities for legislative assistance; providing legal technical advice & preparing draft legislation and regulations.
• Reviewing relevant policies and laws; undertaking gap analyses against international legal instruments & providing legal technical advice.
• Preparing project concept notes, and designing projects involving different relevant technical units, as well as regional, subregional and national FAO offices.
• Representing LEGN at internal and external meetings, undertake field missions, conducting training and other capacity development activities, and briefing the Chief LEGN and the designated LEGN officer on outcomes and results achieved (only for Consultants).
• Undertaking capacity development activities and provide legal support and assistance in the development of project outputs.

Earth System Governance (ESG), Feb. 2021-Present

• Earth System Governance Research Fellow, https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/person/imad-antoine-ibrahim/
• Exploring political solutions and novel, more effective governance mechanisms to cope with the current transitions in the biogeochemical systems of the planet.
• Contributing to various research issues related to democracy and power; justice and allocation; adaptiveness and reflexivity as well as to contextual conditions that are transformations; inequality; anthropocene and diversity.

West Virginia University, United States, Aug. 15, 2018 – Present

• Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization (CIGRU) & Institute of Water Security and Science (IWSS).
• Conducting research on international water and energy law and the Water-Energy-Food nexus (WEF).

New Silk Roads Academy, Netherlands, Dec. 1^st, 2020 – Present

• Mentor guiding students in framing and executing their research related to the Belt and Road Initiative, https://newsilkroads.info/academy/
• Member of the New Silk Roads project, taking part in the research project activities and conferences.

Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy, Apr. 2019 – Present

• Member of the Stals Project (Sant’Anna Legal Studies), http://stals.sssup.it/editors
• Contributing to the work conducted on topics such as (European politics and policies; New constitutional experiences; Judicial dialogue and transnational law; Global legal pluralism …).

Reviewer

• International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics Journal (Springer).
• Sustainability Journal (MDPI).
• European Data Protection Law Review