Frits Kalshoven, born in 1924 at The Hague, The Netherlands, is an ex-naval officer and a Professor emeritus of public international law and international humanitarian law, University of Leiden. He took part in the conferences that drafted the 1977 Additional Protocols and the 1981 Conventional Weapons Convention, and acted as first chairman of the UN Commission of experts on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia (1992-1993).
From 1991-2002 he was a member, and since 1997 president, of the International Fact-Finding Commission of Protocol I of 1977. He will be awarded the Henri Dunant Medal by the Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, on the decision of the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, on 30 November 2003, in recognition of outstanding services and acts of great devotion, mainly of international significance, to the cause of the Movement.