Karen Loehner is the National Information Bureau Manager within the Central Tracing Agency of the ICRC, based in Geneva. She first joined the ICRC headquarters in 2005 as an Associate within the Protection Division, and left for the field in 2008 for various assignments, mostly as a protection delegate (Rwanda, DRC), IHL delegate (Kenya Regional Delegation) and legal adviser to the operations (DRC, Iraq, secondment to the Peace and Security department of the African Union in Addis Ababa, and head of the legal department for the delegation in Israel and the occupied territories.)

Karen returned to headquarters in 2021, joining the CTA. She graduated in Law (University Paris II Panthéon Assas); holds a master’s in diplomacy and strategic negotiations (University Paris XI Sceaux, 2003), an LL.M in IHL from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (then called “CUDIH”, 2005) and was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2007.