Ms Michelle BENDER

Ocean Campaigns Director, Earth Law Center

Michelle Bender is the Ocean Campaigns Director at the Earth Law Center, an Executive Committee member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and a member of the IUCN's World Commission on Environmental Law. Michelle is the founder of the Ocean Rights framework, spearheading the development of an Earth-centered framework for ocean law and policy, and in 2018, she was named one of the fifteen "Youth Ocean Leaders" taking on the world at the World Ocean Summit.