Pascal Rapillard joined the Centre as the Advisor to the Director in March 2008. He is responsible for policy development and handling relations with partners. He advises the Director on the Centre's role in relevant fora and processes of international humanitarian law related to mine action, as well as on relationship building with donors, partner organisations and other mine action actors.
Pascal worked for two years at the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, first in Bern within the Humanitarian Policy Section, then in Geneva as Assistant to the Commissioner of the 30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. In 2005, he worked part-time as a research assistant for the French National Commission on Antipersonal Landmines in Paris.
Pascal holds a degree in International Relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute for International Studies and holds a Masters in Public International Law from the University Panthéon-Sorbonne.
