Dean Bialek
Dean Bialek is ID's Director for UN, Climate Change and Natural Resources. Dean leads our work on climate change and Western Sahara, and helps to oversee ID's work at the UN.
Before joining ID, Dean had over five years' experience in the Australian foreign service, most recently as adviser on economic and environmental affairs and law of the sea at Australia's Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Prior to his New York posting, Dean was a Legal Adviser at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, primarily as a key member of the team negotiating maritime boundary and revenue-sharing arrangements for offshore oil and gas resources in the Timor Sea. Dean worked previously at the World Trade Organization, as a lecturer at the Melbourne University Law School, as a consultant to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and as an intern at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) in London. Dean has a PhD (International law) from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws (Environmental Law) from University of London.
Dean is available for interviews on all UN matters and international economic, trade and environmental issues, including climate change, energy, oceans and fisheries. Contact him directly at +1 212 594 8295.