Dr. Imad Antoine Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Law & Governance at Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences, University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is also a Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal - Global Law Initiative for Sustainable Development. He has been working on global issues from a legal perspective for the last decade. He is currently involved in several projects around the world including South Africa, MENA region, Central Asia, and China.

In the past, he was a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization (CIGRU) & Institute of Water Security and Science (IWSS) at West Virginia University; a visiting researcher at the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) in Washington, DC; a Junior Fellow in the Global Research Network Think Tank in the UK; and an Early Stage Researcher at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) in the Netherlands. He was also a resident research fellow at the Center for United Nations Constitutional Research in Brussels, Belgium; and an Energy policy expert at the Lebanese Oil & Gas Initiative in Beirut, Lebanon. He worked as an EU Commission Marie Curie Fellow at Tsinghua University School of Law Center for Environmental, Natural Resources & Energy Law at the Chinese Research Academy on Environmental Sciences in Beijing, China; and at the Business School, Research Center for Climate Change and Trade at Beijing Normal University. He also worked as a researcher in several European and Italian institutes and universities including the University Institute of European Studies and the Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale. He was a trainee lawyer at Al Jad Law Firm reviewing international conventions related to energy.

He holds a Phd in Law from the Institute of Law, Politics and Development, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy; a Master in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a Bachelor in Law from the Lebanese University "Filiere Francophone de Droit" in Beirut, Lebanon.