Elizabeth Wu

Elizabeth Wu is a transnational governance consultant and international dispute resolution lawyer focusing on the role that international economic law can play in driving environmental and climate justice. She leads legal capacity building and net zero transition initiatives and research in Asia, including regional judicial convening on environmental and climate adjudication, transnational corporate accountability for environmental and climate change impacts, and the development of international investment and trade law norms that support sustainable development. Her work promotes the coherent development of international environmental and climate law, international economic law and international dispute resolution.

Elizabeth has over 13 years of experience spanning transnational corporate accountability, climate and environmental justice, and complex cross-border dispute resolution. She is an independent International Consultant with the United Nations Development Program Global Policy Network, and Lead Advisor, Environmental Justice and Transnational Governance, for Climate Governance Malaysia. She formerly led and developed international environmental law NGO ClientEarth’s Asia-Pacific judicial convening program, and corporate, financial, and international economic law initiatives in Southeast Asia and broader Asia. Prior to that role, she practised international arbitration and litigation with Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP, representing state-linked entities, conglomerates and high net worth individuals in investment and commercial disputes and public law litigation. She was formerly a State Counsel and Deputy Public Prosecutor with the Attorney-General’s Chambers of Singapore. Her experience includes a Fellowship with the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, and a clerkship with The Arbitration Chambers in Singapore.

Elizabeth holds an LLM in International Economic Law, Business and Policy from Stanford Law School and an LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore. She is qualified in Singapore and New York. She is an ESG Working Group Committee member of the Law Society of Singapore, a Global Fellow with the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), and a Visiting Researcher with the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, NUS Faculty of Law. She is also Singapore National Rapporteur for arbitration and international commercial courts for the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Singapore National Rapporteur with the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law's Global Climate Change Litigation Network.