Dr Cordula Droege is Director of International Law, Movement and Partnerships at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She joined the ICRC in 2005 and has since served as Head of the Legal Division and Chief Legal Officer, Chief of Staff to the President, and Head of Legal Advisers to Operations, in locations including Sri Lanka and Israel and the Occupied Territories. She has worked in the field of international law and human rights at the International Commission of Jurists, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Max Planck Institute for International Law. She holds a PhD and a law degree from the University of Heidelberg and an LLM from the London School of Economics.