Meet the team
Beatrice Fihn is the Founder and Director of Lex International. She is the former Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning coalition. She accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and delivered the Nobel Lecture in Oslo on behalf of the campaign. Beatrice is also a Senior Fellow at UNIDIR in Geneva.
Federica Du Pasquier is an Advisor at Lex International and runs our project on revitalizing international law. Previously with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), she now also works with a Geneva-based foundation (GESDA) and teaches international law and conflict resolution at Yale University.
Magnus Løvold is an Advisor at Lex International and leads our work on autonomous weapons and plastic pollution. Former adviser for the ICRC, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Law and Policy Institute and Article 36, and is a co-founder of the Norwegian Academy of International Law.
Paulina Chan is the Advocacy and Outreach Officer at Lex International, and leads our government outreach on the issue of autonomous weapons at the United Nations. She previously worked with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons in Canada, and assisted parliamentarians at the Parliament of Canada.
Inès Nse Bekale is the Project Coordinator at Lex International, focusing on Lex’s grants portfolio and projects. She was previously Assistant Programme Officer at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Project Assistant to the Permanent Mission of Gabon to the United Nations Security Council in New York.
Emma Pike is the Programme Manager at Lex International and focuses on developing and executing Lex’s grant making, events and projects. She has previously worked for IPPNW and in disarmament education.