14 Facts About Hugo Slim

Hugo John Robertson Slim was born on 1961 and is a British academic and policy advisor in International Relations specialising in the ethics of war and humanitarian aid.

Hugo Slim is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford and at the Blavatnik School of Government.

Hugo Slim was educated at Broadlands Primary School in Hereford and St George's School, Windsor before going to Eton College and then to St John's College, Oxford where he studied Theology.

Hugo Slim received his PhD from Oxford Brookes University in 2002.

Hugo Slim's writing on war is distinct for its determined focus on the civilian experience of war and the moral arguments he uses to justify the "civilian ethic" in armed conflict.

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Hugo Slim's book, Killing Civilians used a historical perspective to establish "seven spheres of suffering" that are typical for civilians in war, and criticised a spectrum of "anti-civilian ideologies" in political and military policy that deliberately drive this suffering.

Hugo Slim has pioneered a new turn in the applied ethics of Humanitarian Aid.

Hugo Slim has combined a career in academia, policy and practice.

Hugo Slim started his career in 1983 with Save the Children UK, working in Morocco, Sudan and Ethiopia and as a field officer for the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Ethiopia.

Hugo Slim was appointed Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University in 1994 to co-lead the new Masters in Development and Humanitarian Practice with Nabeel Hamdi at the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice.

Hugo Slim has since worked at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford where he co-founded the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights with Professor Cheyney Ryan and other US academics in 2012.

Hugo Slim has been a Trustee of Oxfam GB and the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon and the Graduate Institute in Geneva.

Hugo Slim is married to Asma Khaliq Awan, an international humanitarian worker from Pakistan.

Hugo Slim has two children from his first marriage to the writer and journalist, Rebecca Abrams.