Vincent Bernard

Senior Policy Advisor

Vincent Bernard leads the development of research and policy at ICoCA and edits the Association’s blog, Private Security Conversations.

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 currently visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute.

He worked in humanitarian operations for 6 years in Africa and the Middle East, promoting respect for humanitarian norms with armed actors, civil society and authorities. As head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) field communication from 2006 to 2010 he travelled and worked in most of todays’ conflict zones. From 2010 to 2020, he was editor in chief of the International Review of the Red Cross (Cambridge University Press), the leading academic journal on humanitarian law, policy and action, and head of the Law and Policy Forum unit, which led ICRC’s engagement with expert audiences on humanitarian law.