ANTONIO GABRIEL M LA VIÑA JSD
Associate Director for Climate Policy and International Relations
Head, Klima Center

Dr Antonio Gabriel La Viña is Associate Director for Climate Policy and International Relations of the Manila Observatory, and Chair of the Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy Department of the Philippine Judicial Academy of the Philippine Supreme Court. He is an adjunct faculty member of the Departments of Environmental Science, Political Science, and Philosophy of the Ateneo de Manila University. He also teaches in several law schools in Manila and Mindanao. He obtained his LLM and JSD degrees from Yale University and his first degrees in philosophy and law from Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines respectively. He served as dean of the Ateneo School of Government and undersecretary of the Philippines’ Department Environment and Natural Resources, and was a Senior Fellow and Program Director of the World Resources Institute.