David Azoulay (he/him) is the Managing Attorney of CIEL’s Geneva office and the Director of CIEL’s Environmental Health Program.

Azoulay is a French attorney who studied public international law in France and Spain before specializing in environmental law. He comes to CIEL from Friends of the Earth Europe in Brussels, where he coordinated their chemical and nanotechnologies campaign. Before that, he worked as an associate in environmental law in the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

In addition to directing CIEL’s Environmental Health Program, Azoulay leads CIEL’s nanotechnology project, advocating for a precautionary approach to the development of nanotechnologies in the EU and at global level. He chairs the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) Nanotechnologies Working Group and coordinates NGO participation in international processes related to nanotechnologies.

azoulay also co-leads our plastic work, examining the environmental health aspects of it and coordinating civil society’s engagement in global policies forum such as the United Nation Environment Assembly (UNEA) and the Basel Convention. He also supervises our work at EU level to ensure that the health impacts of plastics throughout its life cycle are adequately considered in EU policy, and in particular in the design of the EU circular economy strategy, and EU EDC strategy.

He is also a member of IPEN’s steering committee.