Svitlana Kravchenko

LL.M. Program Director

Professor Svitlana Kravchenko has taught environmental law for 25 years at Lviv National University, Ukraine, and was an advisor for the Ministry of Environment and the Parliament of Ukraine. She is the founder and president of Environment-People-Law, the first public interest environmental law firm in Ukraine. She is also co-founder and co-Director of the Association of Environmental Law of Central and Eastern Europe. She served as a Vice Chair of the IUCN Commission of Environmental Law. Svitlana worked as a "citizen diplomat" in the international negotiation of the Aarhus Public Participation Convention, and she serves as elected member and Vice Chair of its Compliance Committee. Professor Kravchenko administered a program "Human Rights for ALL" as Carlton Savage Visiting Professor of International Relations and Peace. She is an elected Regional Governor of International Council of Environmental Law (ICEL) and the Director of the LL.M. Program in Environmental and Natural Resources Law.