Wim Zwijnenburg is a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for the Dutch peace organisation PAX. His work focuses on emerging military technologies and their impact on how wars are being fought and consequences for arms proliferation. He is the author of the reports Does Unmanned Make Unacceptable, Armed & Dangerous, Unmanned and Uncontrolled and Unmanned Ambitions.

Wim is coordinator of the European Forum on Armed Drones, a network of civil society organisations working to address concerns over use and proliferation of military drones. He conducts research and advocacy on the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts. He developed a methodology on assessing environmental impacts of conflicts using remote sensing and environmental open-source investigation techniques.  For his work on this subject,  he received the UNEP/OCHA Green Star Award in 2017 for his work on environmental preparedness in emergencies,  and the Environmental Peacebuilding Association's  2023 Al Moumin Award. He published various reports on the topic on Syria and Iraq and does advocacy work in the UN Security Council and UN Environment Assembly.  He is a frequent contributor to the open-source investigative journalism collective Bellingcat and a contributor to the Wilson Center's  New Security Beat initiative. He holds a Masters in International Development Studies from the Radboud University Nijmegen and received a Philosophy scholarship from the Thomas More Foundation.