Biography

Christopher Hopwood is an expert in the mandates, legal frameworks, politics and principles that underpin multilateral action. His research and teaching themes explore operational decision-making and related policy in contexts where legal obligations, ethical judgment, creativity, and strategic imperatives intersect.

Christopher joins the Florence School of Transnational Governance from his role at the UN World Food Programme (WFP), where he oversaw a geographically dispersed team supporting country strategy and programme design. He also led the conceptualisation of an artificial intelligence tool to support strategic decision making and partner collaboration. Christopher previously served with UN missions in Liberia (UNMIL), Kosovo (UNMIK), the Ebola emergency response (UNMEER), and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

As a Policy Leader Fellow, Christopher’s projects will focus on global and regional water security, exploring scarcity drivers, infrastructure, legal frameworks, justice considerations, and cooperative responses.