Louise Doswald-Beck, Former Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights,Sandra Krahenmann, Research Fellow, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Louise Doswald-Beck is a retired Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Develipment Studies and the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She was formerly Director of its predecessor, the University Center for International Humanitarian Law. Initially a lecturer at the Universities of Exeter and London, between 1987 and 2001 she was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross and became Head of the Legal Division in 1998. At the ICRC, she acted in negotiations leading to various international instruments : the Statute of the International Criminal Court and its Elements of Crimes, Protocols II and IV of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, and Protocol II to the Hague Convention on Cultural Property. She won the Ciardi Prize for co-authoring the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law. Sandra Krahenmann is a Research Fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights where she also teaches in the LLM program. Her main research activities at the Academy focus on the implementation of international law in situations in armed conflict, in particular the qualification of contemporary armed conflicts for the Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project. She also works on the international law issues raised by the phenomenon of foreign fighters.

Previously, she worked at the law of armed conflict section of the Swiss Ministry of Defense ad as a teaching assistant at both the Geneva Academy and the University of Geneva. She holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.