13th United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights

Damilola S. Olawuyi is a Professor and UNESCO Chair on Environmental Law and Sustainable Development at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. He is also the director of the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development at the Afe Babalola University, Nigeria. He researches and teaches in the fields of natural resources, energy, environment, and business and human rights law, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East. He has published and practiced extensively in these areas, and has advised the World Bank, UN agencies, governments, multinational corporations, and civil society organisations on issues related to business and human rights. From 2020-2022, he served as an Independent Expert of the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights Violations in Africa (WGEI) of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olawuyi has served as Co-Chairman of the Legal Education Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, and member of the governing board of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI).
Mr. Olawuyi holds a DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford, a LL.M from Harvard Law School and another LL.M from the University of Calgary. He holds a LL.B degree from Igbinedion University, and a Baccalaureate in Law from the Nigerian Law School, both in Nigeria. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy and sits on the Editorial/Advisory Board of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (RECIEL), Carbon and Climate Law Review, African Journal of Law and Human Rights, Gulf Legal Advisor, and the Journal of Environmental Law, Nigerian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies. Olawuyi is global vice chair of the International Law Association, Chair of the Association of Environmental Law Lecturers in Middle East and North African Universities (ASSELLMU) and a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the International Bar Association’s Section on Energy, Environment, Resources and Infrastructural Law.