Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC
Distinguished Fellow, International Law Programme
Biography
Elizabeth Wilmshurst CMG KC is a distinguished fellow in the International Law Programme at Chatham House. She first joined the institute in 2004 when she set up the International Law Programme, and then became an associate fellow, as well as being a part time professor of international law at University College, London.
She had previously served as a legal adviser in the UK diplomatic service between 1974 and 2003. Between 1994 and 1997, she was the legal adviser to the UK mission to the UN in New York.
She took part in the negotiations for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. Her experience has been in public international law generally, with a particular emphasis on the use of force, international criminal law, the law of the UN and its organs, and international humanitarian law.
Past experience
| 2014-present | Distinguished Fellow, International Law, Chatham House |
| 2007-2014 | Associate Fellow, International Law, Chatham House |
| 2003-2012 | Visiting Professor, University College, London University |
| 1999-Apr 2003 | Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
| 1994-1999 | Legal Counsellor at United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New York, then in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
| 1990-1994 | Legal Counsellor, Foreign & Commonwealth Office |
| 1986-1990 | Assistant Legal Adviser, then Legal Counsellor, Attorney General’s Office |
| 1974-1986 | Assistant Legal Adviser, then Legal Counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| 1972 | Lecturer, Bristol University |
