Professor Owen McIntyre is a Professor at the School of Law, University College Cork (National University of Ireland), where he is Director of the LLM (Environmental & Natural Resources Law) Programme and Co-Director of the UCC Centre for Law and the Environment. His principal area of research is Environmental and Natural Resources Law, with a particular focus on International and Comparative Water Law. He is General Editor of the Journal of Water Law and has served as the inaugural Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law Specialist Group on Water and Wetlands, as a panel member of the Project Complaints Mechanism of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), as a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, and as a member of the Irish Aquaculture Licensing Appeals Board. He holds several visiting academic positions and consults widely in the fields of International Water and Environmental Law for such organisations as the World Bank, UN specialist agencies and the EU, and also advises river basin commissions (RBOs) around the world on transboundary water cooperation.