Elisa Morgera

Elisa Morgera (born 4 March 1977) is an Italian professor, working in Scotland (in 2023), who became the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change in 2024.

Life Morgera was born in Trieste and she graduated from her local university in law. She was unsure of her future career until she discovered environmental law while studying in Belgium as part of her first degree. This was a revelation as she thought she had chosen to ignore the environment to study law. She decided to move to environmental law and she again worked for the UN. In 2015 she joined the University of Eastern Finland as an adjunct Professor of International and European Environmental Law.

Morgera has used a Transformative research model at the One Ocean Hub which was one of twelve research units funded by UK Research and Innovation. She led this group from 2019 and it involved about 100 researchers in different countries. It initially had a ten-year model from its creation in c.2018 but it was drawn to a close after its first five years. to succeed Ian Fry as the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change. She was chosen on the same day as several other rapporteurs including Astrid Puentes Riaño who looks at human rights and the environment and the Colombian Gina Romero who is an expert on the human rights of free association.

Morgera became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2023.

Benefit-sharing for an equitable transition to the green economy - the role of Law (BENELEX), c. 2016, (Morgera et al) Corporate Environmental Accountability in International Law , 2020 Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing in International Law, 2024