Richard Lennane

Richard Lennane is Disarmament Adviser in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross. He has long experience in multilateral disarmament and arms control, in government, the United Nations, and civil society. Richard worked in the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs from 2001-2013, and was head of the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit from its creation in 2007. From 2014-2016 he headed the innovative nuclear disarmament NGO ‘Wildfire’, and was Executive Director of the Geneva Disarmament Platform from 2016 to 2020. He served as a diplomat in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 1992 to 2001, with postings to Egypt and Syria.