Committee Members

2021–2025 

Chair: 

Áine Ryall is a Professor at the School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for Law & the Environment.  A qualified barrister, she has been a member of the Compliance Committee since 2015 and served as Vice-Chair from 2017-2021. She was elected Chair of the Compliance Committee in December 2021.
 

Vice-Chairs: 

Marc Clément is presiding judge at the Administrative Court of Lyon. He is a member of the French Environmental Authority, an independent body in charge of delivering opinions on environmental impact studies for plans and projects and a member of the Ethics Commission of the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire. He has been a member of the Compliance Committee since 2017 and was elected as a Vice-Chair in December 2021.

Jerzy Jendrośka (LL.M, dr.habil) is a Professor of European Law at Opole University (Poland) and of Environmental Law at Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia), and the Managing Partner at Jendrośka Jerzmański Bar and Partners, Environmental Lawyers. He has been a member of the Compliance Committee since 2006 and was elected as a Vice-Chair in December 2021.

Dmytro Skrylnikov is an attorney and head of the nongovernmental organization, Bureau of Environmental Investigation, in Ukraine. He has been a member of the Compliance Committee since 2017 and was elected as a Vice-Chair in December 2021
 

Committee members:

Fruzsina Bögös is a judge at the Supreme Court of Hungary (Curia). She has been a member of the European Forum of Judges for the Environment since 2010 and has served as the Secretary General of the Forum since 2015. She has been a member of the Compliance Committee since 2017.

Heghine Grigoryan is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Yerevan State University, Armenia. A consultant on environmental and climate policy and law at the United Nations Development Programme in Armenia, she has been a member of the Compliance Committee since 2011.

Peter Oliver is a Visiting Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and a Visiting Fellow at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law in London.  He is a qualified barrister, but spent nearly all his career in the Legal Service of the European Commission where he rose to be a Legal Advisor, and has written widely about European Union law. He has been a member of the Compliance Committee since 2017

Thomas Schomerus is a Professor of Public Law, specialising in environmental and energy law, at Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany. A qualified lawyer, he started his career as civil servant for the City of Hamburg, and he is a former judge of the Higher Administrative Court for the State of Lower Saxony. He was elected to the Compliance Committee in 2021.

Eleanor Sharpston KC is a former advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (2006-2020), barrister, and academic. She holds visiting positions at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and the Riga Graduate School of Law, Latvia. She is serving as the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge University in 2023-2024. She was elected to the Compliance Committee in 2021.

Former Committee members:

2017–2021
Chair: Mr. Jonas Ebbesson (Sweden)
Vice Chairs: 
Mr. Alexander Kodjabashev (Bulgaria)
Ms. Áine Ryall (Ireland)
Members:
Ms. Fruzsina Bögös  (Hungary)
Mr. Marc Clément (France)
Ms. Heghine Grigoryan (Armenia)
Mr. Jerzy Jendrośka (Poland)
Mr. Peter Oliver (United Kingdom)
Mr. Dmytro Skrylnikov (Ukraine)

2014–2017
Chair: Mr. Jonas Ebbesson (Sweden)
Vice Chair: Mr. Alexander Kodjabashev (Bulgaria)
Members:
Mr. Pavel Cerny (Czech Republic)
Mr. Ion Diaconu (Romania)
Ms. Elena Fasoli (Italy)
Ms. Heghine Hakyverdyan (Armenia)
Mr. Jerzy Jendrośka (Poland)
Mr. Alistair McGlone (United Kingdom)
Ms. Áine Ryall (Ireland) (from July 2015)
Ms. Dana Zhandaeva (Kazakhstan) (until July 2015)