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Ms Kathleen Lawand is Executive-in-Residence Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and senior consultant on global issues and multilateral processes. She has over 30 years’ experience in leadership, legal and policy roles, including 24 years with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

As head of the ICRC’s Arms Unit, she led the representation of the organization in complex multilateral negotiations and meetings involving evidence of the health impacts of weapons, such as the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the Political Declaration on Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas, the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention, and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

More recently, she has advised the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) on the negotiations of the plastic pollution treaty. She received her Master of Laws (LL.M.) in public international law with distinction from the London School of Economics in 1995, and has been a member of the Québec Bar since 1990.