We are pleased to announce that Dr Emmanuel Osuteye has accepted an invitation to join Chambers’ Academic Panel.

Emmanuel is a multi-disciplinary lecturer in Urbanisation and Sustainable Development at the Bartlett Developing Planning Unit, University College London (UCL) where he has worked since 2015.  Prior to this, he lectured on environmental law and climate change policy at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University.

Dr Osuteye specialises in environmental law and policy issues in the context of sustainable development in the global south. His research interests focus on climate change, environmental justice, and urbanisation and environmental law in African countries. This includes the governance, policy and institutional aspects of disaster risk and risk management, climate change adaptation and resilience, planning regulation, and community-led development in low-income urban centres. 

Emmanuel regularly provides technical inputs to sustainable development policy formulation and implementation processes. He has worked with the African Union Development Agency, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme and United Nations Human Settlement Programme. He is a contributing author to the IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report on Climate Change (Working Group 2 – on impact, adaptation and vulnerability) and also serves as a Technical Advisor on urban resilience to the African Union.  A full list of publications is available here.

Emmanuel has an LLM in Environmental Law and Policy, and PhD in Environmental Social Science, both from the University of Kent.

Chambers’ Academic Panel was established to foster closer links with the academic world, and to exchange ideas on developments of interest in our particular spheres of expertise. Members of the panel provide an added dimension to the services we are able to offer clients and contribute to our seminar programme.

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