Board of Directors
Sandor Fülöp
Dr. Sándor Fülöp PhD has a degree in law, in psychology and wrote PhD dissertation in environmental procedural law. He is teaching environmental law, communication sciences and sustainable development at the University of Public Services, Budapest (UPS), as associate professor. He is the chair and staff lawyer of EMLA. He served as independent parliamentary Ombudsman for Future Generations in Hungary btw. 2008 and 2012.
Olena Kravchenko
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Elena Laevskaya
Born in Minsk (Belarus), she received her law degree from Belarusian State University, graduating with honors from the Faculty of Law.
PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Law Faculty of the Belarusian State University (until April 2021), founder of the NGO «Ecopravo» (1999, Minsk). From 2000 to 2011, she was the head of the representative office of «ISAR, Inc.» (USA) in Belarus.
Over the years, she served as an arbitrator on the PCA Panel of Environmental Arbitrators, Permanent Court of Arbitration (Hague), a mediator at the Chamber of Mediation of the International Center for Dispute Settlement at the CIS Economic Court (Minsk), and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk).
As part of the national delegation of the Republic of Belarus, she has repeatedly participated in conferences of the Parties to the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement, and the Aarhus Convention (2006–2019). As an international expert, she participated in international projects under the auspices of the UN to assess the legal framework for EIA in a transboundary context and SEA in Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan (2009–2017). She served as a national legal expert and team leader for over 50 international technical assistance projects to the Republic of Belarus, with financial support from the EU, UNDP, the World Bank, and others, covering various issues of sustainable development, environmental protection, and the implementation and protection of environmental rights.
She participated in the development of draft regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus (including the Forest Code, the Law "On Environmental Protection" and its amendments and additions, concepts for the Environmental Code, the Law "On Climate Protection," draft regulatory legal acts ensuring the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, etc.).
Author and co-author of over 180 scientific, methodological, practical, and educational publications on various aspects of civil, international, and environmental law, including over 30 books, monographs, textbooks, and teaching aids. Author of the first Belarusian textbook on climate law, published in 2024 (E.V. Laevskaya. Introduction to Climate Law. Minsk, 2024, 619 pages).
Iordanka-Rodica Iordanov
Dr. Iordanca-Rodica Iordanov is the Executive Director of the Public Association EcoContact in the Republic of Moldova, a role she has held since July 2024. She is a founding member of EcoContact, established in 2010 as the successor to Mileukontakt International.
With an extensive professional background, Dr. Iordanov serves as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the State University of Moldova, where she has been teaching Environmental Law and European Environmental Law since 1998. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Law from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and brings over 25 years of experience in the environmental field.
Dr. Iordanov served as Secretary of State from August 2021 to November 2022 and as Minister of Environment from November 2022 to March 2024. She is widely recognized as an expert in environmental law, with expertise in aligning national legislation with the European Union’s environmental framework, managing public interest environmental litigation, environmental assessments, biodiversity conservation, air and water protection, emissions control, waste management (including hazardous waste and chemicals), public participation, civil society engagement, and the management of protected natural areas.
Till November 2025, she was chairing the Task Force on Access to Information under the Aarhus Convention Secretariat and is a member of the PRTR Compliance Committee. From 2022 to 2024, she co-chaired the OECD Task Force on Green Economy. Dr. Iordanov is also a fellow of the Austrian Leadership Programs (ALPS) 2024 and, for the 2024–2026 period, serves as Chair of the Moldova–Romania–Ukraine Expert Group on the Prut River.
Dr. Iordanov has significant expertise in implementing international conventions and protocols, including the Aarhus, Espoo, Stockholm, Basel, Climate Change, and Biodiversity Conventions, as well as the PRTR and SEA Protocols. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with numerous international organizations, including the United Nations, UNECE, UNICEF, the World Bank, the EBRD, OSCE, the OECD, and EU Delegations.
As both a legal practitioner and policymaker, including during her tenure as Minister of Environment, Dr. Iordanov has played a pivotal role in the Republic of Moldova’s European integration process—particularly in environmental protection, aligning business activities with environmental standards, and sustainable natural resource management.
Dmytro Skrylnikov
Dmytro Skrylnikov is an attorney and head of the nongovernmental organization, Bureau of Environmental Investigation, in Ukraine.
Dmytro Skrylnikov is a lawyer with more than 30 years of experience in the field of environmental law, public interest environmental litigations and other environmental issues including environmental policies, environmental assessment and environmental awareness-raising activities, waste management and prevention of the illegal movement of hazardous waste; For many years he has been involved with OSCE, UNECE, UNEP and other international organisations as a consultant on different tasks related to the Aarhus, Espoo, Carpathian, Basel Conventions, PRTR and SEA Protocols and some other Multilateral Environment Agreements (e.g. Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions). He has over 15 years’ experience of the implementation of the EU environmental acquis in the field of environmental governance, nature protection, industrial emissions and waste governance.
He is a member of the IUCN Commission for Environmental Law (CEL), a member of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW) and a member of the Guta Environmental Law Association.
He has been a member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee since 2017 and a Vice-Chair of the Compliance Committee since December 2021
Ilya Trombitsky
Ilya Trombitsky is executive director of the International Association of River Keepers, the Moldovan-Ukrainian umbrella association of environmental NGOs of the transboundary Dniester River basin. He is one of main promoters of the Dniester River basin treaty (Rome, 2012) and member of the Dniester River intergovernmental Commission. In 1990-2000 was a member of the Parliament of Moldova and in 1995-2000 – head of the Environmental Committee of the NIS inter-parliamentary assembly, promoting progressive model laws. Mr. Trombitsky is PhD in biology, has 270+ publications in spheres of environmental law, non-for-profit law, ecology, biosafety, water policies, ichthyology, aquaculture, fish pathology, and parasitology. Member of the inter-governmental Dniester River Commission, national committee on biosafety of Moldova, member of the Moldovan national platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF). Current interests: European integration of Moldova in field of environment and aquaculture, water biodiversity conservation, support of Md-UA cooperation on Dniester River basin sustainable management, the confidence building measures between parts of Transnistrian conflict, using environment as a common value, promotion of the Aarhus and Water UNECE conventions in Moldova.
Borys Vasylkivskyi
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