Hugo is the Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and Chair of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights. He is also a Visiting Professor at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Academy at Suzhou University and at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. Hugo’s career has combined academia, policymaking, humanitarian diplomacy and frontline relief operations. Hugo has worked for Save the Children, the United Nations, Oxfam GB, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD). From 2015 to 2020 he was Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). His books include: Humanitarianism 2.0: New Ethics for the Climate Emergency, Hurst 2024; Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty First Century, Hurst, 2022, Humanitarian Ethics: The Morality of Aid in War and Disaster, Hurst, 2015, and Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War, Hurst, 2007.