LLB, QCL (Ghana), LLM (Georgetown Law), MPP (Oxford), Doctor of Int’l Affairs (Johns Hopkins SAIS)

Dr. Jamal Tonzua is a multilingual lawyer and policy consultant with practice experience and specializations in Ghanaian law, public international law, environment and sustainability, and dispute resolution. Currently a law lecturer and a UNEP Global Environmental Law and Sustainability Fellow, he has served as a government legal advisor and a military staff officer in Ghana. He is passionate about human rights, environmental sustainability, and climate change policy, and has provided professional services in those areas to foreign governments, intergovernmental organizations and policy think tanks. Jamal holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Oxford, a Master of Laws degree from Georgetown Law, and a doctorate in international affairs from The Johns Hopkins University. He is a recipient of the United Nations International Law Fellowship, the Hague Academy of International Law Fellowship, the UNEP Global Environmental Law and Sustainability Fellowship, the International Law Fellowship of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and the Fellowship of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea.