Joanne Foakes Former Chatham House Associate Fellow and FCDO Legal Counsellor Joanne Foakes is a barrister and the author of “The Position of Heads of State and Senior Officials in International Law’ (published in the Oxford International Law Library series) and a...
George Howe Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office George Howe has been a member of the UK’s Diplomatic Service since 2006, serving in a variety of policy, operational and legal roles. From 2009 to 2012 he was posted to Syria as HM...
Nicholas Waddell Deputy Director, Sanctions Directorate, FCDO Nicholas is Head of the FCDO’s Sanctions Regimes and Litigation Department. He led and drafted the UK’s Sanctions Strategy. His remit covers the full range of non-Russia UK and UN sanctions regimes. He...
Ben Brzezicki Legal Counsellor, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Ben Brzezicki is a Legal Counsellor at the FCDO and head of the Legal Directorate’s Foreign Relations Team, responsible for Consular, Protocol and International Criminal Justice legal advice...
Professor Surabhi Ranganathan Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge Surabhi Ranganathan’s current work traces the co-constitution of international law and the ocean from 1945 to now, unsettling what we take as the givens in relation to the...