Prior to joining the ICRC, Benjamin Charlier worked as a legal adviser in the international cooperation department of the Office of the Belgian Federal Prosecutor, in Brussels. He joined the ICRC in 2005 as a Protection delegate and carried out missions in Myanmar, Darfur, Kosovo and Rwanda. He joined the ICRC’s legal division in 2010 in Geneva, as the legal adviser in charge of ICRC’s operations in Africa. He then worked at the Advisory Service on international humanitarian law, during which time he became the ICRC’s focal point for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict and for matters related to international criminal justice mechanisms. Still based in Geneva, he currently works on the relationship between IHL and cyberwarfare, and the promotion of this file in the Americas and the Asia regions.

Benjamin holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Liège, in Belgium and the University of Nijmegen, in the Netherlands, where he specialized in Criminal law and International Law and Criminology. He also holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in International law in armed conflict from the University of Geneva, in Switzerland.