Vincent Bernard

Senior Policy Advisor

Vincent Bernard has extensive experience in law and policy advocacy in complex environments. From 2010 to 2019, he was editor in chief of the International Review of the Red Cross, a leading academic journal on humanitarian law, policy and action, published by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Cambridge University Press and head of the Law and Policy Forum, which led ICRC’s engagement with expert audiences interested in humanitarian law, policy and action. As head of the ICRC’s field communication set-up from 2006 to 2010 he travelled and worked in most of todays’ conflict zones. He worked in humanitarian operations for 6 years in Dakar, Nairobi and Jerusalem.

Vincent studied political science, law and international relations at the Political Science Institute and Law Faculty in Strasburg, The King’s College, London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He taught law and political sciences at the University of Marmara in Istanbul and is now visiting lecturer in several universities and executive in residence at the Geneva Center for Security Policy.