Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat was born in Alor Setar, Kedah on 26th August 1970. She went to St. Nicholas Convent for her primary schooling and then MRSM Kulim. She did her law matriculation at IIUM Matriculation Centre in 1988 and enrolled for her LL. B degree the following year at the same university and graduated in 1993. She was called to the bar as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in April 1994 and practised law in Kedah and Perlis. After migrating to Terengganu in January. 1996 to marry her university sweetheart and law classmate, she began teaching law at ITM Dungun and her tenure with UMT began as a tutor on 1st January 1998. She pursued both her master (1999) and doctoral (2005) degrees in law from UPM. She was promoted to associate professor in June 2007 and as professor in April 2015. As a law professor and the head of the Centre for Ocean Governance at the Institute of Oceanography and Environment, her current and past research projects are mainly in coastal and marine environmental governance. She has to date secured 50 research grants amounting to approximately MYR7 million, where she acted as principal investigator in 26 of such projects and published more than 200 research papers including academic books.
She is also a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Malaysian Navy Sea Power Centre. She has been appointed to the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law since 2014 (also subspecialising in the Ocean, Coastal and Coral Reefs Specialist Group, as well as the Water and Wetlands Specialist Group. In 2014, upon nomination by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she received a travel grant from the UN to represent Malaysia, and the Asia Pacific region, to speak at the 15th Meeting of the United Nation Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea (UNICPOLOS) at the UN Head Quarters in New York. She currently represents Malaysia to UNEP COBSEA Expert Group on Marine Litter Monitoring. Recently, she was appointed to chair the Marine Environment Session for the Maritime Cooperation Track during the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit 2024 in Melbourne.
She currently serves on the National Technical Working Committee on Seabed Mining Legal Framework. She also serves on the Committee on Law, Ethics, Discipline and Enforcement of the Malaysian Board of Geologist. In 2016, she headed the formulation of the 2018 - 2027 National Oceanography Strategic Plan under the National Policy on Science, Technology and Innovation. She is also a national task force member on sea turtle management and conservation in Malaysia. She is currently working with Kuala Terengganu City Council, Terengganu State Government, Xiamen University China and PLANMalaysia on the drafting, adoption and implementation of the Terengganu Marine Spatial Planning, the first one in the Peninsular. She also serves on the Technical Working Group for the National Marine Spatial Planning Policy Framework. She is also heading the study on formulating the MPA Blueprint for Malaysia, as commissioned by the Department of Fisheries, and sits on the National Technical Committee on MPA Blueprint, to help achieve the national biodiversity target of marine protected areas under the Convention of Biological Diversity. She is also currently working with the National Security Council with developing Marine Scientific Research Guidelines which is necessary to protect national maritime interests.
Authors: Wan Izatul Asma Wan Talaat
Pages: 174
Weight (book only): 345 g
ISBN: 9786297625362
Year: 2024
Finishing: Softcover
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