Members of the Editorial Board of the International Review of the Red Cross

Vincent Bernard, ICRC Geneva, Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of the Red Cross (France)

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Vincent Bernard is Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of the Red Cross and head of the Law and Policy Forum, which runs ICRC's engagement with academia, legal and policy training and the Humanitarium, the ICRC's conference and visitors’ centre. A graduate of Strasburg's Political Sciences Institute, he holds a master's degree in political science, an LLM in international law (law faculty at Strasburg and King's College London) and a DES in international relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies. After lecturing on international law and IHL at the University of Marmara in Istanbul, he joined the ICRC in 1998. He has worked both in the field (Regional Delegation for West Africa in Dakar, Regional Delegation for East Africa in Nairobi, and Israel and Occupied Territories) and at headquarters, and in various areas and capacities (integration and promotion of IHL, Communication Coordinator, Head of Sector for Africa and Head of Field Communication).

Annette Becker, University Paris-Ouest Nanterre, Institut Universitaire de France (France)

Annette Becker, Professor of Modern History at Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense and a former senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, has written extensively on the two World Wars and the extreme violence they inflicted against civilians, with an emphasis on military occupation and genocide. She has devoted research to humanitarian politics, trauma and memories, particularly among intellectuals and artists. Her last three books were Guillaume Apollinaire: Une biographie de guerre (Tallandier, 2009), Les cicatrices rouges 1914–1918: France et Belgique occupées (Fayard, 2010) and Voir la Grande Guerre: Un autre récit, 1914–2014 (Armand Colin, 2014). She was one of the contributors to the Cambridge History of the First World War (3 vols, 2014) and directed its French edition, La Première Guerre mondiale (Fayard, 2014). She is now writing on Raphael Lemkin and Jan Karski, two important voices of the twentieth century and its catastrophes.

Chaloka Beyani, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, London School of Economics (Zambia)

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Chaloka Beyani (DPhil, Oxon; LLB, LLM, Zambia) is the United Nations’ (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and Associate Professor in International Law and Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has taught since 1996. He has taught international law and human rights at Oxford and at the University of Zambia. His publications are in public international law, human rights, the movement of persons and populations, territorial disputes, legitimacy of states, migrants, African legal systems, and constitutional reforms. Beyani is an international UN expert on internally displaced persons, population transfers, mercenaries and private military companies, sexual and reproductive health, climate change and human rights, and the human rights approach to development. He is a member of the UN Deputy Secretary-General's Senior Expert Group on Human Rights Up Front, a member of the advisory group to the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, a member of the Steering Board of the UK Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, and a member of the Africa Advisory Committee for the Open Society Justice Initiative. He was Chair of the Coordination Committee of the UN Human Rights Special Procedures, and of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. He is a former member of the board of Interights, Oxfam, the International Minority Rights Group, and Independent Diplomat. Beyani was a member of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons of the African Union on the Formation of an African Union Government, has advised the African Union on the issue of universal jurisdiction, and was a member of the African Union and European Union ad hoc Expert Group on Universal Jurisdiction. He drafted and negotiated the adoption of the Pact of Peace, Stability and Development of the Great Lakes Region in 2006, and the African Union Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in 2009. He was a member of the Committee of Experts on the Constitutional Review of the Constitution of Kenya, which prepared and drafted the new Constitution of Kenya 2010.

Françoise Bouchet Saulnier, Médecins Sans Frontières (France)

Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier, a Doctor of Law and Magistrate, is the Legal Director of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She is the author of several books and articles on humanitarian action, humanitarian law and international justice, in particular the Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). She is involved in framing the rights and responsibilities of MSF humanitarian and medical activities in situations of armed conflict or internal tensions, as well as medical rights and duties when treating sick or wounded individuals and victims of sexual violence and interacting with judicial systems. Over the past twenty years, she has been involved in developing key MSF policies and public positioning on humanitarian action and mass crimes, military intervention and international criminal justice. She is also a member of the Editorial Committee for MSF's Speaking Out Case Studies.

Hilary Charlesworth, Australian National University (Australia)

Hilary Charlesworth is a Distinguished Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Australian National University. She also currently holds an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. She holds degrees in arts and in law from the University of Melbourne and an SJD from Harvard Law School. Her research includes the structure of the international legal system, peacebuilding, human rights law and IHL, and international legal theory, particularly feminist approaches to international law. Prof. Charlesworth has been a visiting professor at institutions including Harvard Law School, New York University Global Law School, UCLA, Paris I and the London School of Economics. She is an associate member of the Institut de Droit International and served as Judge ad hoc in the International Court of Justice for the Whaling in the Antarctic case (2011–14).

Sarah Cleveland, Columbia Law School (United States)

Sarah Cleveland is Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights, and Faculty Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University Law School. She is also a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, the US member on the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, and Co-Director of the Project on Harmonizing Standards for Armed Conflict. From 2009 to 2011, she served as Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State, where she helped supervise the office's legal work relating to the law of armed conflict, international justice, and human rights. She continues to serve as a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law, and is a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and a Council Member of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, Cleveland holds a baccalaureate degree from Brown University (1987), a master's degree from Oxford University (1989) and a JD from Yale Law School (1992). She has written widely on issues of international law, national security and human rights.

Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (Senegal)

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Adama Dieng, a Senegalese jurist, assumed his position as UN Undersecretary-General and Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide on 1 September 2012. Prior to this appointment he served since 2001 as Assistant Secretary-General and Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Before joining the UN, Mr Dieng was for ten years Secretary-General of the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists (1990–2000). While holding this post, he was appointed as the UN Independent Expert for Haiti (1995–2000). He also served in 1993 as the UN Secretary-General's Envoy to Malawi, tasked with mediating between the government and pressure groups. He was the driving force behind the establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and produced the draft version of the African Convention to Fight Corruption. He is a former board member of various institutions, including the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, the International Human Rights Institute (Institut Rene Cassin) and the Africa Leadership Forum. Mr Dieng has a long-standing relationship with the ICRC dating back to 1980. In recognition of his contribution to the strengthening of the rule of law and the fight against impunity, he was made an Honorary Chairman of the Washington-based World Justice Project.

Fyodor Lukyanov, Russia in Global Affairs, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (Russia)

Fyodor Lukyanov has been editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a journal published with the participation of Foreign Affairs, since its founding in 2002. Under his leadership the journal has become one of the most authoritative sources of independent information on foreign policy and international relations in Russia. In December 2012 Mr Lukyanov was elected as Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, the oldest Russian NGO providing expertise in the field of security and foreign affairs. He is member of the Presidium of the Russian International Affairs Council, and since 2015 has been a Research Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Relations at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His column appears regularly in the Moscow Times, the Russian edition of Forbes, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Gazeta.ru. He has an extensive background in Russian media since 199 and is now one of the most quoted commentators on Russian foreign policy worldwide. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1991 with a master's degree in German language and literature.

Ximena Medellín Urquiaga, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Mexico)

Ximena Medellín is a Law Professor at the Division of Juridical Studies of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City. She holds degrees in law from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City (LLB, 2004), and the University of Notre Dame (LLM, 2007, magna cum laude). She is the author of several publications in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, IHL and transitional justice. Some of her most recent books include the Digest of Latin American Jurisprudence on International Crimes (Vols 1 and 2) and the Digest of Latin American Jurisprudence on the Rights of Victims. Prof. Medellín has been a consultant to national and international organizations, including the ICRC and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has extensive experience working with armed and police forces, diplomats, journalists, litigants, judges and university professors within the Latin American region. Her current research focuses on the interaction between international human rights law, IHL, international criminal law and comparative constitutional law.

Tasneem Meenai, Jamia Millia Islamia (India)

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Tasneem Meenai is Director of the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She previously worked as Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, on the research project “Role of Multilateral Institutions in Conflict Resolution”. She has also taught political science at Aligarh Muslim University for a number of years. A graduate of Jamia Millia Islamia, Dr Meenai holds an MA in international relations from the Australian National University, Canberra, and in politics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and a PhD in political science from the University of Mumbai. Her areas of research and interest are humanitarian dimensions of armed conflict, humanitarian protection, multilateral institutions and conflict resolution, UN peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding, and other issues of conflict resolution, peace and security, especially in South Asia and West Asia. She is co-editor (with K. Santhanam et al.) of United Nations: Multilateralism and International Security (Shipra, 2005), and co-author (with K. Santhanam et al.) of Iraq War 2003: Rise of the New Unilateralism (IDSA and Ane Books, 2003). She is currently also Dean of Students’ Welfare in Jamia Millia Islamia and is a member of the Managing Body of the Indian Red Cross Society (Delhi branch) for 2015–16.

Sorcha O'Callaghan, British Red Cross (United Kingdom)

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Sorcha O'Callaghan is Head of Humanitarian Policy at the British Red Cross. She works on a range of different issues, including humanitarian principles, civil–military relations, resilience and accountability. She previously worked as Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute. She led the Humanitarian Policy Group's work on protection of civilians and has published on protection, livelihoods and humanitarian principles. O'Callaghan has worked on and in Sudan, where she coordinated the Sudan Advocacy Coalition, a consortium involving Care, Christian Aid, the International Rescue Committee, Oxfam GB, Save the Children UK and Tearfund. With a background in law, she has also worked in the refugee and asylum sector in Ireland.

Emre Öktem, Galatasaray University (Turkey)

Emre Öktem is a Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law of Galatasaray University, Istanbul. He is the author of the books Freedom of Religion in International Law, Terrorism, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Piracy and Privateering: History and Law (co-author) and Customary International Law, and various articles on human rights, humanitarian law, minority rights, terrorism and statehood, as well as essays on history. Actively engaged in interfaith dialogue, he is collaborating with religious minorities’ institutions in Turkey for the defence of religious rights. He has served as an expert at the Advisory Council for the Freedom of Religion and Belief at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and as an expert witness in international investment arbitrations. Öktem worked on the critical edition in Turkish of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols, and the translation of the ICRC study Customary International Humanitarian Law, by Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck.

Marco Sassòli, University of Geneva, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Switzerland)

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Marco Sassòli, a national of Switzerland and Italy, is Professor and Director of the Department of International Law and International Organisation of the University of Geneva. From 2001 to 2003, he was Professor of International Law at the University of Québec in Montréal, where he remains Associate Professor. He is Commissioner and alternate member of the executive board of the International Commission of Jurists. He graduated with a doctor of laws from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and is member of the Swiss Bar. He has also served as Executive Secretary of the International Commission of Jurists and as Registrar at the Swiss Supreme Court. He worked for the ICRC at its headquarters in Geneva from 1985 to 1997, inter alia as Deputy Head of its Legal Division, and in the field, inter alia as Head of Delegation in Jordan and Syria and as Protection Coordinator for the former Yugoslavia. In 2011, Prof. Sassòli took a sabbatical in order to take up a six-month assignment as Legal Adviser for the ICRC in Pakistan.

Michael N. Schmitt, US Naval War College, University of Exeter (United States)

Michael Schmitt is the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law and Director of the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the US Naval War College. He is also Professor of Public International Law at Exeter University in the United Kingdom, a Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on International Law and Armed Conflict and a Senior Fellow of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Prof. Schmitt serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Law Studies and has been elected a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Yuval Shany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Democracy Institute (Israel)

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Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also serves currently as a member of the UN Human Rights Committee and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. He holds degrees in law from the Hebrew University (LLB, 1995, cum laude), New York University (LLM, 1997) and the University of London (PhD, 2001). He has published a number of books and articles on international courts and arbitration tribunals and other international law issues such as international human rights law and IHL. He received the 2004 American Society of International Law book award (creative legal scholarship) and a 2008 European Research Council grant awarded to pioneering research leaders. Shany has taught in a number of law schools in Israel, and has been in recent years a Research Fellow at Harvard University and Amsterdam University, and a Visiting Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, Michigan University Law School, Columbia University Law School and the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney.

Sun Shiyan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China)

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Shiyan Sun is Research Fellow, Professor of International Law and Head of the Research Department of Public International Law at the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He holds a PhD from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and an LLM and LLB from Jilin University in China. He was Associate Professor at Jilin University School of Law and Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of Lund University in Sweden. He is currently a member of the Board of Editors of the Chinese Journal of International Law and the Chinese Review of International Law. He has published many articles and books on international law and international human rights law.

Fiona Terry, Independent Researcher (Australia)

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Fiona Terry has spent most of the last twenty years involved in humanitarian operations in different parts of the world including Northern Iraq, Somalia, the Great Lakes region of Africa, Liberia and Sudan. She was a Research Director for MSF in Paris from 2000 to 2003, working on North Korea, Sierra Leone and Angola, before spending three years with the ICRC in Myanmar (Burma). She holds a PhD in international relations and political science from the Australian National University and is the author of Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action (Cornell University Press, 2002), which won the 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. More recently she has been teaching at Duke University in North Carolina, and has undertaken several in-depth studies for the ICRC including on the practice of neutrality in Sudan and Afghanistan, and on the protection of health care in Afghanistan, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since early 2014 she has been working with MSF in Somalia, evaluating the impact of the organization's withdrawal from the country in mid-2013 and investigating possibilities for a safer re-engagement in this difficult context.