Victor Calero

Victor Calero is a Graduate Professional at UNIDIR’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, with a focus on the Nuclear Weapons Risk Reduction and Nuclear Disarmament Verification workstreams.

Victor is a qualified lawyer in Ecuador and holds a Master of Laws in International Operational Law from the Swedish Defence University, where his dissertation examined the application of the principle of proportionality to siege warfare. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws from Universidad de las Américas with a specialization in the inter-American human rights system. His areas of expertise include disarmament, weapons of mass destruction, law of armed conflict, and international criminal law.

Before joining UNIDIR, Victor worked at various international entities in the fields of public international law and disarmament, including the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Organization of American States, the Platform for Peace and Humanity, and the Clooney Foundation for Justice, among others.

Victor speaks Spanish, English, and has an intermediate level of French.