Prof.dr. Jonathan Verschuuren is a professor of International and European Environmental Law at Tilburg Law School (Netherlands), an EU Marie Sklodowska Curie alumnus at the University of Sydney, and an extraordinary professor at North-West University and the University of the Western Cape. In 2017, he was awarded the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Senior Scholarship Prize. His primary research focus is on climate change law. He has been working on a range of topics in that field, such climate change adaptation and the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security, and on reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.