Marnie Lloydd

Dr Marnie Lloydd is an experienced legal advisor and humanitarian professional, specialising in international law related to armed conflict, civilian protection, and humanitarian action. She researches and teaches at the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, where she is also Director of Postgraduate Studies and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law. She has held visiting fellowships at the Peter McMullin Statelessness Centre (Melbourne) and Copenhagen University School of Law, and has been invited twice by Harvard Law School as a Global Scholar. She is also a Visiting International Professor at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum. Marnie holds a BA in Linguistics and LLB (Hons) (Wellington), a European Masters in International Humanitarian Assistance (Bochum), an Executive Masters in International Law in Armed Conflict (Geneva Academy), and a PhD (Melbourne).

Marnie’s academic work builds on fifteen years in the international humanitarian sector, primarily working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (Ethiopia, DRC, Chad, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Middle East region). She is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. In 2022, Marnie was recognised as a “Women Leader in Law” by New Zealand’s Borrin Foundation She chairs New Zealand’s National IHL Committee, is Co-Chair of ANZSIL’s International Peace & Security Interest Group, sits on various editorial boards including Voelkerrechtsblog and the Asia-Pacific Journal of IHL, and was an author and member of the Reading Committee of the ICRC’s Updated Commentaries on the Geneva Conventions.

Dr Lloydd contributes to the annual report and is responsible for quality control of all War WATCH entries.