WHO WE ARE
Stop Ecocide International (SEI) was co-founded in 2017 by pioneering barrister Polly Higgins (1968-2019) and current Executive Director Jojo Mehta.
SEI is the driving force behind the growing global movement to make ecocide an international crime. Our core work is activating and developing global cross-sector support for this. We collaborate with diplomats, politicians, lawyers, corporate leaders, NGOs, indigenous and faith groups, influencers, academic experts, grassroots campaigns and individuals to this end.
Positioned at the meeting point of legal developments, political traction and public narrative, we are uniquely placed to support and amplify the global conversation.
Our core international team is located in many parts of the world and managed from the UK by Stop Ecocide International Ltd.
Our charitable entity the Stop Ecocide Foundation was created in November 2019 in the Netherlands to support the growing movement and is the main fundraising and commissioning vehicle for our work. The Foundation was the commissioning body for the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide. It has ANBi status.
Polly Higgins (1968-2019)
Our ambassadors:
Activist for climate and human rights, Co-founder Youth For climate Belgium, Special Advisor to the Executive Vice-President of the European Commission M. Timmermans
DAVID VAN REYBROUCK
Cultural historian and writer, with expertise in in colonialism and citizen participation to climate activism
JEAN-PASCAL VAN YPERSELE
Ex-president candidate of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Professor of Climate and Environmental Science at UCLouvain, Belgium.
SANDRINE DIXON-DECLÈVE
President The Club of Rome, Author, TED global speaker, Special Advisor: Fighting 4 Low Carbon Energy & Sustainability Solutions - WECAN Founder
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Co-founderCO2LOGIC,main partner @SOUTH POLE- Schepen KNOKKE-HEIST - RIVER CLEANUP advisory board
FRANÇOISE TULKENS
Former Judge at the European Court of Human Rights and Professor of Criminal Law and President of the Monsanto Tribunal.
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NIC BALTHAZAR
Film director and TV/radio personality (presenter, reporter, producer)
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GERT PETER BRUCH
Director, journalist, photographer and author and
Founder of Planet Amazon.
OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER
Professor of human rights at UCL Louvain and SciencesPo et United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.
JEAN-NOEL TILMAN
CEO
Tilman Laboratory
PRINCESS ESMERALDA OF BELGIUM
Journalist, author and activist committed to the climate, the defense of women and the rights of indigenous peoples.
Our Belgian team
Patricia Willocq
Founder and general coordinator of Stop Ecocide Belgium and French-speaking coordinator of Stop Ecocide International.
Ruth-Marie Henckes
Co-lead and Flemish spokesperson
of the Belgian campaign & Nature campaigner at Greenpeace Belgium - Caolition Stop Ecocide Belgium
Jose Javier Paniagua Garcia
Legal Advisor & French-speaking spokesperson.
Director of the European Foundation for the Rights of the Living - Caolition Stop Ecocide Belgium
Josepha
Close,
PhD, Legal advisor specialized in international law.
Jessica
Delangre
Biologist and Education Officer
Canopea - Caolition Stop Ecocide Belgium
Ivo Vanpuyvelde
Spokesperson and activist
Julie Beaussaert
Translator
Mae Lan
Head of fund raising and translator
Zoe Briard
Legal Advisor
Orian Boel
Legal counsel & French-speaking spokesperson
Tine Dupre
translator
Chloé Mikolajczak
Porte-parole francophone
Tiffani Coune
content manager
Sandrine Hanon
Proofreader of French texts
Lino Paoletti
French-speaking
spokesperson
Erika Lambion
Social media manager
Cynthia Titinjaya
Activist
