Job description

Ellen Hey is Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Professor of Public International Law at Erasmus School of Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Advisor to the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP), of Columbo University, Sri Lanka. In July 2023, she delivered lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law on the topic 'Making Sense of Soft Law'. She holds degrees from Utrecht University and the University of Wales and an Honorary Doctorate from Stockholm University. She was a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales and a Visiting Scholar at K.G. Jebsen Center for the Law of the Sea at UiT, now NCLOS. She was a member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, a legal advisor to the government of the Netherlands, and has worked as a consultant for various international organizations. Her research interests include international law and the environment, the law of the sea, and international institutional law. Ellen Hey grew up in The Netherlands, Egypt, and Venezuela.