Robin Geiss
Robin Geiss | |
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At the UN Security Council, 2024 | |
| 8th Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research | |
| Assumed office 1 April 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Renata Dwan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1974 (age 51–52) |
| Education | University of Kiel (PhD), New York University (LLM), University of Edinburgh and University of Bielefeld |
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Robin Geiss (born 1974) is a German United Nations diplomat and international legal scholar. In 2021, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as Director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Prior to this, Geiss held the Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and served as Director of the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security at the University of Glasgow.