Dr okechukwu Ejims

Principle Lecturer ( Associate Professor) in Law

University of Bedfordshire

Dr Okechukwu Ejims is a Principle Lecturer and law programme lead at the University of Bedfordshire (UK). His teaching interests lie within the sphere of International Economic Law. Okechukwu’s research focuses primarily on the interaction between International Investment Law and human rights as well as Climate Change and Environmental Protection. He has written several publications in these areas, and he is currently researching the role of international investment law in combating climate change, as well as a project that examines indigenous peoples ‘agenda in international investment treaties. Okechukwu has advised the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on matters relating to investment law, and he is currently an expert group member of the OECD Investment Committee Secretariat on investment treaties and climate change. He obtained an LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London in 2005 and a PhD from The University of Leeds in 2009, in which he specialised in International Investment Law.