Christine Frison

Christine Frison is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL Sustainable Biodiversity and Biosafety Law Programme and a lawyer specializing in biodiversity, agro-biodiversity and biosafety issues. She currently conducts a joint Ph.D. research programme as an affiliated junior researcher at the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (University of Leuven - KU Leuven, Belgium) and at the Centre for Philosophy of Law (University of Louvain - UC Louvain, Belgium). She served as a legal adviser to...See more

Christine Frison is a Legal Research Fellow with the CISDL Sustainable Biodiversity and Biosafety Law Programme and a lawyer specializing in biodiversity, agro-biodiversity and biosafety issues. She currently conducts a joint Ph.D. research programme as an affiliated junior researcher at the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (University of Leuven - KU Leuven, Belgium) and at the Centre for Philosophy of Law (University of Louvain - UC Louvain, Belgium). She served as a legal adviser to the Belgian Federal Ministry of Environment between 2006 and 2009, where she remains a member of the Belgian Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) Contact Group. She carries out consultancy contracts for various international organizations (including the United Nations Environment Programme and Bioversity International), university research centers and NGOs. She has authored a number of publications and is the main editor for Plant Genetic Resources and Food Security: Stakeholder Perspectives on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2011) with J. T. Esquinas-Alcazar and F. Lopez. See less