Prof. Gerry Nagtzaam of Monash University in Australia is an environmental lawyer and has just participated in the International Negotiating Committee on creating a Global Plastics Treaty, which was held in Uruguay. 

Nagtzaam is a world recognised environmental scholar both domestically and internationally. His research focuses on the intersections between environmental law, politics, history and economics. He has written a number of well received books on topics including international environmental treaties and their normative treatment, nuclear waste disposal in democratic states, and a forthcoming book on the phenomenon of ecoterrorism. He has written extensively on the issue of whaling and global bio diversity loss. Nagtzaam is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria’s International Law Committee.