Lode Dewaegheneire is a fellow at the University of Liège (Belgium) and an independent expert. His main research field is transparency in disarmament and its impact on the implementation of disarmament and arms control treaties. Other fields of research are (EU) dual-use export control regime and the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Dewaegheneire has been working in humanitarian disarmament for many years and was Coordinator for Article 7 Reporting in both the Anti-personal Mine Ban Convention and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. He also worked for three years in the Verification Division of the OPCW where he was responsible for the yearly Verification Implementation Report. Currently he is also working with Mines Action Canada as a military advisor.

Dewaegheneire holds a Master's Degree in Military and Social Sciences from the Royal Military Academy (Brussels) and in International Relations from the University of Liège. ​