Daniel Bethlehem

Sir Daniel Bethlehem KCMG QC (born 16 June 1960) is a barrister and former legal advisor to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom government.

He is a founding Director of Legal Policy International Limited (LPI), and a Consulting Senior Fellow at The International Institute for Strategic Studies IISS. From May 2006 to May 2011, he was the principal Legal Adviser of the United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Prior to this, he was in practice at the London Bar and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.