Brigadier General Dan Kuwali serves in the Malawi Defence Force as Chief of Policy, Strategy and Plans and is the first Commandant of the National Defence College of Malawi. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Army War College.

As an academic, he is a Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden, where he obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in international law.

He is also an Extraordinary Professor of International Law at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa; a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School; Adjunct Professor and Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies at the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST); Immediate Past President and founding member of the African Military Law Forum (AMLF); Executive Member of the African Bar Association (AfBA); Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town; and Senior Research Fellow at the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), Human Sciences Research Council.

Professor Kuwali has published extensively on topics including Corruption Proofing in Africa: A Systems Thinking Approach (Routledge, 2024); The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Peace and Security in Africa (2022); Forceful Intervention for the Protection of Human Rights in Africa (Oxford Bibliographies, 2020); By All Means Necessary: Protecting Civilians and Preventing Atrocities in Africa (2017); and Africa and the Responsibility to Protect: Article 4(h) of the African Union (2016). His forthcoming volume, The Routledge Handbook on Law and Conflict Transformation in Africa, will be published next year. He has also authored numerous peer-reviewed monographs, book chapters, scholarly articles and policy essays.