Hugo Slim

Hugo was born in England in 1961. He was educated at St John's College Oxford where he read Theology from 1980-83.
In the early part of his career, from 1983-1994, Hugo worked as an international humanitarian worker with Save the Children UK and the United Nations in Sudan, Ethiopia, Morocco, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Bangladesh.
In 1994, Hugo became an academic at Oxford Brookes University where he co-directed an award-winning Masters programme for humanitarian workers with Professor Nabeel Hamdi from 1994-2003.
During this time, Hugo became a consultant to many of the western world's leading international NGOs. He was also on the Council of Oxfam GB from 1998-2004 and an International Adviser to the British Red Cross from 1997-2004. He received his PhD in humanitarian ethics from Oxford Brookes University in 2002.
In 2003, Hugo was appointed Chief Scholar at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva - Switzerland's leading conflict resolution organization mediating between governments and armed groups in civil wars where he led HD's research work on the protection of civilians and helped develop HD's thinking on mediation and peace processes.
In 2007, Hugo returned to Oxford and is currently a Director of CforC Ltd in London. CforC is an innovative company that specializes in emerging markets and fragile states where it supports international companies and private investors to shape profitable and responsible businesses in difficult places ¬ see www.cforcgroup.com

Hugo is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford - see www.elac.ox.ac.uk