Maja Groff, an international lawyer, leads the Climate Governance Commission, together with Co-Chairs Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, 73rd President of the UN General Assembly, and Johan RockstrÓ§m, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, which proposes and develops governance innovations to meet the climate challenge. She serves as Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee and Senior Treaty Advisor for the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC).
Her professional background includes almost two decades working on the development and implementation/administration of multiple multilateral treaties. She was a Visiting Professor at Leiden University, focusing on global governance challenges, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident, has taught at the Hague Academy of International Law, and is currently Chair of the Planetary Governance Program, The New Institute, Hamburg. She was co-winner of a major international prize on international governance innovation (New Shape Prize), and is co-author of the book, Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press), among many other publications.
She holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford and McGill (common and civil law), and is an attorney admitted to New York. She serves on advisory boards for For Good Leaders and ebbf, organizations devoted to ethical business.
