Maja Groff

Biography

Maja Groff, Esq., an international lawyer based in The Hague, leads the Climate Governance Commission, together with co-Chairs Mary Robinson, former Chair of the Elders and President of Ireland, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, 73rd President of the UN General Assembly, and Johan Rockstrӧm, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, which proposes and develops high impact global governance innovations adequate to meet the climate challenge. She serves as Co-Chair of the Coordinating Committee and Senior Treaty Advisor for the International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC). She has worked on the development and implementation/administration of a wide range of multilateral treaties, with diverse international organizations. She was a Visiting Professor at Leiden University and is currently Chair of the Planetary Governance Program, The New Institute. She was a winner of a major international prize on global governance innovation (New Shape Prize), and is co-author of the book, Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press). She holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford and McGill Universities, and has served on advisory boards for For Good Leaders and ebbf, organizations devoted to ethical business.