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Kent Nnadozie

Kent Nnadozie, member of the Call of the Earth Steering Committee, is a Nigerian lawyer engaged in environmental and sustainable development law and policy issues, focusing mostly on biodiversity and related intellectual property rights, especially the local community aspects. He has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA).

Kent is currently the Director of the Southern Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (SEAPRI), an initiative of the International Centre for Insect Physiology & Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya, which:

• focuses on agricultural, environmental, technological development and trade issues primarily as they affect developing countries and local communities; and
  
• aims to provide technical support to developing country governments and other public or non-profit institutions in the development of effective policies and legislative initiatives.

Kent was previously the Executive Director of the Environmental Law Foundation of Nigeria, which promotes research and provision of education and expertise in local and international environmental law.

He is the Co-ordinator of the Network of African Environmental Lawyers established under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Network for Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa and a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law and its Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Law.

Kent is also a regular member of the Nigerian delegation to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COPs 4, 5 & 6) and has also participated in other multilateral environmental processes including:

• the Climate Change Convention
  
• the Convention on Desertification Ramsar Convention
  
• World Intellectual Property Organisation's IGC; and
  
• FAO International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

He has worked very closely with local communities, especially traditional medical practitioners and herbalists, in developing mechanisms for access and benefit sharing and the protection of their knowledge and related rights. Recently a member of the Special Task Force set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to review of all Intellectual Property laws and to prepare drafts of new relevant legislation.

Kent is also a member of the expert group involved in the programme of the African Union to assist member states in establishing legal/policy frameworks for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of biological diversity, the protection of Local Community Rights, and safety in Biotechnology.

More recently, Kent published a book on the legal and policy approaches to access to genetic resources in Africa, in collaboration with the Scientific, Technical and Research Commission of the African Union and Environmental Law Institute.

Other activities include the study of the legal and policy aspects, as well as the role, of Genetic Resources in Africa within the context of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

Fairly well published, Kent has also consulted widely for national institutions, international organisations and bodies as well as donors, including the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), the United Nations FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the Rockefeller Foundation, on related issues.

Kent Nnadozie (Nigeria) Photo:COE