Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University and director of the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS). She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect. Jennifer has published several books and articles on the ethics and politics of armed conflict, the ‘responsibility to protect’, humanitarian action and civilian protection, the UN Security Council, and Canadian foreign policy. Her most recent edited collection, The Individualization of War, is based on a five-year European Research Council Advanced Grant project investigating protection, liability, and accountability in contemporary armed conflict. Her 2016 book, The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the 21st Century, was based on her CBC Massey Lectures. Jennifer is co-chair of the Committee on Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and sits on the Boards of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. Her research and policy engagement have been recognized through her election as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and as International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.