CV and publications.
Dario Piselli
Experience
2024 – present | Senior Manager, Biodiversity and Pollution
KPMG in Sweden
2022 – 2024 | Expert in Environment, Human health and Well-being
European Environment Agency
2020 – 2022 | Founder and Independent Consultant
Dario Piselli Sustainability Consulting
2020 – 2022 | Programme Manager
Jean Monnet Module on European and International Environmental Law
2018 – 2020 | Researcher
Centre for International Environmental Studies,
the Graduate Institute
2017 – 2020 | Programme Manager
Jean Monnet Module on
EU Law and Sustainable Development
2016 – 2018 | Research officer
Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute
2014 – 2019 | Project Lead, Youth Solutions Program
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
2012-2015 | Project Member
SDSN Mediterranean
Education
2016 – 2022 | PhD International Law
Graduate Institute of Geneva
2015 – 2016 | MSc Environment and Development
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
2009 – 2015 | Juris Doctor
University of Siena
Research and Publications
Books and edited volumes
Andonova, Liliana B., Moira V. Faul, and Dario Piselli. 2022. Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance: Pathways to Effectiveness. Routledge: London, UK.
Journal articles
Purece, Anthony, […] and Dario Piselli. 2024. Environmental burden of disease related to pyrethroid-insecticide exposure and neurodevelopmental toxicity in Europe based on human biomonitoring. European Journal of Public Health 34(Suppl_3), ckae144.636.
Purece, Anthony, […] and Dario Piselli. 2024. A preliminary estimate of the environmental burden of disease associated with exposure to pyrethroid insecticides and ADHD in Europe based on human biomonitoring. Environmental Health 23, 91.
Solé, Magali, […] and Dario Piselli. 2024. Assessing in-field pesticide effects under European regulation and its implications for biodiversity: a workshop report. Environmental Sciences Europe 36, 153.
Andonova, Liliana B., and Dario Piselli. 2022. Transnational Partnerships, Domestic Institutions, and Sustainable Development. The Case of the Brazilian Amazon Region Protected Areas Programme. World Development 157, 105809.
Kickbusch, Ilona, Dario Piselli, Anurag Agrawal, et al. 2021. The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing Up in a Digital World. The Lancet, 398(10312), 1727-1776.
Gonenc, Defne, Dario Piselli, and Yixian Sun. 2020. The Global Economic System and Access and Allocation in Earth System Governance. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 20(2), 223-238.
Held, David, Ilona Kickbusch, Dario Piselli, Kyle McNally, and Michaela Told. 2019. Gridlock, Innovation and Resilience in Global Health Governance. Global Policy Journal, 10(2), 161-177.
Pavoni, Riccardo, and Dario Piselli. 2016. The Sustainable Development Goals and International Environmental Law: Normative Value and Challenges for Implementation. Veredas do Direito, 13(26), 13-60.
Book chapters and encyclopaedia entries
Perron-Welch, Frederic, Jorger Cabrera, Dario Piselli, Alexandra Goodman, Aleksandra Spasevski. 2023. 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems…In The UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Commentary, edited by Ilias Bantekas and Francesco Seatzu. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
Piselli, Dario, and Harro van Asselt. 2021. Planetary Boundaries and Regime Interaction in International Law. In Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries, edited by Louis Kotzé and Duncan French. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK.
Andonova, Liliana B., Manoela Assayag, and Dario Piselli. 2020. Partnerships. In Essential Concepts of Global Environmental Governance, edited by Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini. 2nd edition. Routledge: London, UK.
Pavoni, Riccardo, and Dario Piselli. 2019. EU Biodiversity Law and Its Health Impacts. In Negri, Stefania, ed. Environmental Health in International and EU Law: Current Challenges and Legal Responses. Routledge: London, UK.
Piselli, Dario, Siamak Loni, Kayla Colyard, and Sienna Nordquist. 2019. The Role of Youth in Achieving the SDGs: Supporting Youth-led Innovation for Sustainable Food Systems. In Valentini, Riccardo, John L. Sievenpiper, Marta Antonelli, and Katarzyna Dembska, eds. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Sustainable Food Systems. Springer: Cham.
Pavoni, Riccardo, and Dario Piselli. 2017. Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing. In Morgera, Elisa, and Jona Razzaque, eds. Encyclopedia of Environmental Law: Biodiversity and Nature Protection Law. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK.
Book reviews
Piselli, Dario. 2021. Review of The Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Judgment and Its Contribution to the Development of International Law, edited by Serena Forlati, Makane Moïse Mbengue and Brian MacGarry. Italian Yearbook of International Law, 30(1), 589-593.
Piselli, Dario. 2019. Review of Sustainable Development Goals: Law, Theory and Implementation, edited by Duncan French and Louis Kotzé. Italian Yearbook of International Law, 28(1), 619-625.
Piselli, Dario, and Riccardo Pavoni. 2017. Review of Governing Through Goals: Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation, edited by Norichika Kanie and Frank Biermann. Transnational Environmental Law, 6(3), 551-554.
Working papers, policy briefs and other non-peer reviewed publications (selected)
Pavoni, Riccardo, and Dario Piselli. 2022. Armed Conflicts and the Environment: An Assessment of Principle 24 of the Rio Declaration Thirty Years On. EIEL Working Paper. Available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=4071106.
Piselli, Dario. 2022. International Sharing of Pathogens and Genetic Sequence Data Under a Pandemic Treaty: What Linkages with the Nagoya Protocol and the PIP Framework? Global Health Centre Policy Brief 2022. Available at https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/sites/internet/files/2022-02/policy-brief6.pdf.
Elkahwagy, Rana, Vandana Gyanchandani, and Dario Piselli. 2017. UNFCCC Nationally Determined Contributions: Climate Change and Trade. CTEI Working Paper 2017-02. Available at http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/ctei/shared/CTEI/working_papers/CTEI-2017-02.pdf.
Piselli, Dario. 2018. Goal-setting in an Era of Mass Extinction: A Planetary Boundary for Biosphere Integrity in International Biodiversity Law?. EJIL: Talk!. Available at https://www.ejiltalk.org/?p=16762.
Piselli, Dario. 2018. The Role of Indirect Investments in REDD+ Projects: Path Dependence or Key Factors for Success? Working Paper. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.18149.42728/2
Awards, honors and titles
2023 – 2024 | European Environment Agency representative to the EU Cross-agency Task Force on One Health
2022 – 2024 | Co-lead of the European Environment Agency-Eionet Group on Food Systems
2021 – present | Member of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM)
2020 – present | Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law (WCEL)
2020 – present | Affiliated Researcher at the Centre for International Environmental Studies, Graduate Institute of Geneva.
2020 – 2023 | Co-Recipient of Erasmus+ Grant for Jean Monnet Modules: “European and International Environmental Law” (619930-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-EPPJMO-MODULE).
2017-2020 | Co-Recipient of Erasmus+ Grant for Jean Monnet Modules: “European Union Law and Sustainable Development” (586764-EPP-1-2017-1-IT-EPPJMO-MODULE).
2014-2019 | Member to the Advisory Board of COPERNICUS Alliance – European Network on Higher Education for Sustainable Development.
2017 | Featured in the 2018 Lavazza Calendar as one of 17 sustainability ambassadors whose work is contributing to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
2015 | ‘Cultore della Materia’ in Public International Law and EU Law at the University of Siena.
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