Francisco Lobo

Francisco Lobo is a Military Ethics advisor and International Law expert. He holds a PhD in War Studies (King’s College London), where he is also a Tutor at the KCL Centre for Military Ethics. He holds an LLM in International Legal Studies (New York University), an LLM in International Law and an LLB (University of Chile). He has worked as a legal practitioner in the private and public sectors, including at the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the UN International Law Commission. He is also a lecturer and academic, as well as a consultant on asylum cases in the UK and the US. He has trained military personnel in human rights and ethics standards at the Chilean War Academy in Santiago; at the Theresian Military Academy in Vienna; at the Baltic Defence College in Tartu; and at the Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. He has also contributed to online training delivered by King’s College London to the Colombian armed forces. He has worked as an advisor for an international development project to train the Armed Forces of Ukraine in IHL and military ethics standards. His research interests include international law and politics, diplomacy, peace and conflict studies, human rights, applied ethics, history and post-colonial studies, and comparative literary analysis.