Dr Parvez Hassan (a Patron of the GNHRE) is Senior Partner at Hassan and Hassan (Advocates), Pakistan and a Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He holds a Doctor of Laws from Harvard University; a Master of Laws from Yale University; and a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts from Punjab University. Dr Hassan drafted the Pakistan Environmental Protection Ordinance, 1983 and is a member of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Council.  He was Chair of the IUCN Legal Panel that drafted the Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997 and, alongside a wide range of other high level affiliations with the government, has pioneered and led environmental protection and sustainable development issues in Pakistan for over three decades.  He is also a well-known human rights activist, and as Acting Chairman of the All Pakistan Lawyers National Co-ordination Committee led the lawyers’ movement in 1983. Dr Hassan has written numerous articles on environment, law and national affairs in law journals and other publications in the U.S., Europe and Pakistan, and has organised and chaired international law conferences and presented keynote addresses all over the world.  He is on the Editorial Board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law; and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.