One of my client from New York was quite impressed by finding my name on Amazon. Well, I am impressed AND surprised.
I was appointed to write this book years ago, for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity hosted in Italy in 2005. Nobody planned to publish the book at the time – definitively not me – and to be entirely honest I didn’t plan to get the job as well
Let’s say that I was in the right place at the right time. Fresh of my master in energy and environmental law from KU Leuven in Belgium, in a meeting at the Italian Ministry of Environment to discuss something completely different, to make it short, I get the job.
I spent some amazing time researching the Italian natural parks in the weekends, working as a full time lawyer in the week. I would have never make it without Chiara Rezia Loppio, a passionate Phd. in natural and environmental science, and her husband.
Five years later the book is on Amazon for an impressive price, and I am described as a “lawyer who works regularly with international treaty law, the United Nations, and environmental concerns”. I am no modest person, but I would like to meet the guy behind the text. Thank you Mr Marketing man, this is a pure boost for my ego.
