Dr Emanuela-Chiara Gillard
Dr Emanuela-Chiara Gillard
Dr Emanuela-Chiara Gillard is a Consulting Fellow in Chatham House’s International Law Programme and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict.
Emanuela has over two decades’ experience in the field of international law and humanitarian action. In the past decade a particular focus of her work has been the interplay between sanctions, counterterrorism measures and humanitarian operations. She has addressed these issues from operational, policy and academic perspectives.
Emanuela’s work has also addressed particular aspects of the protection of civilians in armed conflict, including proportionality in the conduct of hostilities and the rules regulating humanitarian relief operations. With Prof Dapo Akande is the co-author of the Oxford Guidance on the Law Regulating Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict.
From 2007 to 2012 Emanuela was Chief of the Protection of Civilians Section in the Policy Branch of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. For seven years prior to joining OCHA, she was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Before joining the ICRC in 2000, Emanuela was a legal adviser at the United Nations Compensation Commission. From 1995 to 1997 she was a research fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.
Emanuela holds B.A, LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
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