Dr Cordula Droege is Director of International Law, Movement and Partnerships at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

She leads the ICRC’s mission to uphold, disseminate and develop international humanitarian law and humanitarian disarmament, and the institution’s cooperation with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. She is also responsible for steering the ICRC’s policy work and engagement and for directing its archives.

She has held various positions in the field and at headquarters, among others as head of the legal division and chief legal officer, chief of staff to the President, head of legal advisers to operations. Before joining the ICRC in 2005, she 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 law degree from the University of Heidelberg and an LL.M from the London School of Economics.