Dualta Roughneen is a graduate Civil Engineer of the National University of Ireland, Galway, and holds an MSc in Human Rights from University College Dublin. He has worked in Sudan, Afghanistan, Liberia, North Korea, Ethiopia, Niger, Cameroon, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Nepal and the Central African Republic, amongst others, in humanitarian response. His publications include the books North Korea: On the Inside Looking in (2014), The Right to Roam: Travellers and Human Rights in the Modern Nation State (2010), Humanitarian Subsidiarity: A New Principle? (2017), The Pope and the World: The Thoughts of Pope Benedict XVI, and he is also the editor of The Best of Benedict: An Irish Perspective (2020). He likes to run and read in his spare time.