David Fairman. David Fairman is Senior Mediator at the Consensus Building Institute and Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. For 35 years, he has built consensus and enhanced collaboration capacity on complex organizational and public issues internationally and in the U.S. He has been deeply engaged in strengthening and supporting multilateral and bilateral accountability mechanisms for the World Bank Group, EIB, European DFIs, the Green Climate Fund, and UNDP, among others.
In addition, he has built development agency and private sector capacity for effective stakeholder engagement in Brazil, Ghana, Nepal, Nigeria, the Philippines, Tanzania, and more than 20 other countries.
Charles Di Leva. Charles Di Leva joined the World Bank in 1992 following a career that included as an attorney with the United Nations Environment Program, the United States Department of Justice, Environment Division, and in private practice with a national law firm. Before retiring in 2021, he served as the World Bank’s Chief Officer for Environmental and Social Standards, and prior to that as Chief Counsel, International and Environmental Law. In these roles he oversaw the implementation of the Environmental and Social Framework, participated for Bank management on a number of Inspection Panel investigations and related matters including the Toolkit Review, led the legal work related to the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, accreditation to the Green Climate Fund and Global Environment Facility, and in partnerships with borrowers and external stakeholders. He also played a leadership role among multilateral development banks on developing and harmonizing environmental and social policy. Upon retiring, he became a partner in Sustainability Frameworks, LLP.
Charles is an Executive Counsellor with the American Society of International Law, co-chair of the ASIL International Law Development Interest Group, and former Director of the IUCN Environmental Law Program. He has also dedicated decades to academia, serving as an adjunct professor at American University and George Washington University, where he has taught courses on international environmental law, development finance, and climate change law and policy. His scholarly contributions include supervising research on accountability mechanisms for multilateral development banks and co-authoring articles on the Paris Agreement, climate finance, and environmental and social standards.