Moderator

Thematic session: Water

• Friday Nov. 16, 13h30-15h00
  

• Saturday Nov. 17, 9h00-10h30
  

Jay Batongbacal is a lawyer from the Philippines. While he was taking up his LLB from the University of the Philippines, he worked with an NGO training indigenous peoples on their legal rights. Soon after receiving his license to practice in 1991 he worked with the National Unification Commission first as Head of the Secretariat of the Government Negotiating Panel for Military Rebels, and then later Executive Director of the National Amnesty Commission. He left government service in 1996, and took a Master course in Marine Management at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. He returned to the Philippines the year after to work with a think tank on marine policy, covering a wide variety of fields such as community-based coastal resource management, international maritime boundary issues, marine environmental protection, shipping, and seafaring. He returned to Dalhousie University in 2003 as one of the inaugural Scholars of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and is now writing his dissertation on the social justice implications of ocean energy resource development.