 The Interim President of ECOSOCC was Kenyan Nobel Prize winner Prof. Wangari Maathai.In 2008, she was replaced as President by Cameroonian lawyer Akere Muna of the Pan-African Lawyers Union (PALU).ECOSOCC is provided for in the African Union Constitutive Act, but does not have its own protocol, relying rather on Statutes approved by the AU Assembly.