Dr. Knut Dörmann is Head of Delegation to the EU, NATO and the Kingdom of Belgium, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) since June 2020.

Previously he had been ICRC's Head of the Legal Division and Chief Legal Officer since December 2007, Deputy Head of the Legal Division between June 2004 and November 2007 and Legal Adviser at the Legal Division between December 1998 and May 2004 (in charge of among others the law applicable to the conduct of hostility, cyber warfare, the protection of the environment, international criminal law).

He holds a Doctor of Laws (Dr. jur.) from the University of Bochum in Germany (2001). He was Managing Editor of Humanitäres Völkerrecht - Informationsschriften (1991-1997). Prior to joining the ICRC, he was Research Assistant (1988-1993) and Research Associate (1993- 1997) at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, University of Bochum.

Dr. Dörmann has been a member of several groups of experts working on the current challenges of international humanitarian law. He has extensively presented and published on international humanitarian law, international law of peace and international criminal law.

He received the 2005 Certificate of Merit of the American Society of International Law for his book Elements of War Crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, published by Cambridge University Press.