About the Author

Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University and Director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies. She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. From 2013–2016, she served as the Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Responsibility to Protect.

Professor Welsh is the author, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on humanitarian intervention, the evolution of the notion of the “responsibility to protect,” civilian protection, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy. She was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021 and is a member of the Academy’s Committee on International Security Studies (CISS). She is also a member of the Advisory Boards of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation.