Elizabeth Rushing is Head of Law & Policy Outreach for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Editor-in-Chief of its Humanitarian Law & Policy blog. In these roles, she leads and convenes global thought leadership and public engagement on consequential legal, policy and humanitarian challenges arising from armed conflict.

Elizabeth rejoined the ICRC in 2019, having previously worked with the organization as well as the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the War Crimes Research Office, UNAIDS, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the International Federation for Human Rights. Her experience spans international policy and advocacy, human rights and humanitarian affairs, research, strategic communications, editorial strategy and stakeholder engagement.

She holds a Juris Doctor from American University Washington College of Law and a Master of Laws from Université Paris Nanterre, with a focus on international human rights law and international humanitarian law.