Heleen Huijgen has a Bachelor’s degree of Science and a Master’s degree in International and European Law from the University of Amsterdam and works for the department of Military Operations at TNO. She wrote the master-thesis ‘The Formation of the Legal Framework Prohibiting Chemical Weapons with Regard to Non-State Actors’ under supervision of Professor Terry Gill. During an internship at the Dutch Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva at the disarmament department, Huijgen was responsible for the preparation and organization of the Meeting of State parties to the Cluster munition convention and the preparation for the First Committee of the General Assembly meeting of the UN in New York.