Natascha Kersting is Senior Research Associate at Cambridge Governance Labs. She is also a Senior Associate for Law and Policy at EarthMedic and a Red Cross Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.

Natascha is a public international lawyer with expertise in global governance, environmental law, human rights law, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law.

Natascha previously worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Zimbabwe and Algeria and with the German Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.

She holds an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and law degrees from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and the University of Cologne, as well as diplomas in political science from Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf.

Paul Harding is an Associate of the International Forum at Jesus College and Operations Director of Cambridge Global Conversations, an international project to promote awareness and dialogue on pressing global issues. The inaugural event on the ethics of climate change in 2019 generated video content that has exceeded a quarter of a million views worldwide. He worked in China for 13 years working for financial institutions, teaching finance under various UK university overseas programmes, and co-founding a tech company that grew to become China’s largest platform for creative tech skills training. He worked for a US analysis firm and pseudonymously authored articles for The Diplomat and in Newsweek Magazine.