Vicente Paolo Yu is Professorial Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Law, Associate Professor, International Institute in Geneva, and Honorary Associate, University of Warwick School of Law.

Vicente is an experienced international lawyer, policy advisor and negotiator, and scholar on international economic and environmental law. He works as an independent expert and consultant for various United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations. He is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Third World Network (TWN), Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Previously, he served as the Deputy Executive Director of the South Centre and coordinated the South Centre’s work on global governance, climate change, investment, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development issues.