Dr. Jan Altgelt works as a senior policy officer at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment. He is a former research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre 700 "Governance in areas of limited statehood," where he completed his doctoral thesis on the duty of extraterritorial military presences to cooperate with international criminal courts and tribunals. Previously, he worked for the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Public International Law from the University of Nottingham.