International Advisory Board

The distinguished International Advisory Board provides the Global Centre's Executive Director with advice on strategy, policy and management. Its members include policymakers and academics, representatives of Associated Centres and leaders in the NGO community. The IAB will eventually have twelve members.

CO-CHAIRS

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Hon. Gareth Evans AO QC is Chancellor of the Australian National University and Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne. He serves as Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament whose report Eliminating Nuclear Threats was published in December 2009, and is President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group which he led from 2000 to 2009. He previously spent 21 years in Australian politics — thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister — including eight years as Foreign Minister (1988-96). He has written or edited nine books — most recently The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (2008). Gareth Evans has served on numerous blue ribbon panels, including the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001) famous for creating the principle of the responsibility to protect, and the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (2004). He is the recipient of the 2010 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom from Fear, granted by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Stichting for his pioneering work on the Responsibility to Protect, and his contributions to conflict prevention and resolution, arms control and disarmament.

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Mohamed Sahnoun is the founder and chair of the Caux Forum for Human Security, and former President of Initiatives of Change-International. He has a distinguished diplomatic career, serving as Deputy Secretary-General of both the Organization of African Unity and the League of Arab States, and as Algeria's Ambassador to Morocco, the United States, France, and Germany. Sahnoun has represented the United Nations in numerous positions since 1992, and is currently a Special Adviser to the Secretary-General. He was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS).

IAB Members

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Jan Egelandis the Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He was appointed as the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Conflict Resolution in 2007 and served as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2003-2006). He also served as Secretary-General of the Norwegian Red Cross (2002-2003) and State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990-1997). Egeland has participated in numerous peace processes including Colombia (1997-2001), Middle East (1992-1993), Guatemala (1990-1996), Former Yugoslavia (1993), and Sudan (1994).

Thelma Ekiyor is the first Executive Director of the TY Danjuma Foundation. Prior to joining the Danjuma Foundation, Ms. Ekiyor led the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), based in Accra, Ghana, established by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa. Ms. Ekiyor also served as Director of Programs at the West Africa Network for Peace building (WANEP), and Senior Manager of Conflict Intervention and Peace-building support at the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She has a Law Degree from University of Buckingham and a Fellowship from Stanford University and co-authored several books and written extensively on governance and development issues affecting Africa.

Rosemary Foot is a Professor of International Relations, and the John Swire Senior Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996, and is presently a member of the Academy's Politics and International Studies Standing Committee. Professor Foot has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of San Francisco; a visiting fellow at Harvard University as well as a visiting Professor at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, Singapore. Her principal research interests are in the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, particularly security policies, human rights, regional institutional and normative developments, and US-China relations. She is author of several books, including Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism in America's Asia Policy (2004); and Rights beyond Borders: the Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China (2000).

Carolina G. Hernandez is currently Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of the Philippines where she was holder of the Carlos P. Romulo Chair in International Relations. She is Founding President and Chair of the Board of the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies, an independent, non-profit think tank on foreign policy, domestic politics, and security concerns and development issues. She served various Presidents including the late Corazon Aquino, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on the issues of democratic governance of the armed forces and peace talks with rebels. Dr. Hernandez is widely published in international, regional and Philippine academic journals such as the Asian Survey, Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly, and Public Policy, in the fields of regional security and foreign relations; military in politics, democracy and development, and Philippine domestic politics and foreign policy.

Ricardo Lagos Escobar is the UN Special Envoy for Climate Change and the president of Fundación Democracia y Desarrollo (Foundation for Democracy and Development) which he founded in 2006. He was the president of the Republic of Chile between 2000 and 2006. Prior to his presidency, he served at the United Nations as consultant and economist in UNESCO and the International Labor Organization, until his return to Chile, where he founded the Partido por la Democracia (Party for Democracy) and was minister of education (1990-1994) and minister of public works (1994-2000). He has received the Honoris Causa from a large number of prestigious universities in the world, such as the Universidad Autónoma de México, Universidad de Salamanca, amongst many others. He was granted the "Berkeley Medal," top distinction of the Berkeley University in California.

Frank Majoor is the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands on the North Atlantic Council. From 2005-2009 he served as the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations in New York. He was the Secretary General of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague between 2000 and 2005. From 1999 until 2000 he was Ambassador at Large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Majoor was appointed as the Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland from 1997-1999. Ambassador Majoor started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1976, his long career at the Ministry has also has also included positions as Deputy Director and Director of the Security Policy Department.

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Juan Méndez is the president emeritus of the International Center for Transitional Justice, and from 2004-2007 also served as the UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. He has dedicated his legal career to the defense of human rights and has a long and distinguished record of advocacy throughout the Americas, including 15 years with Human Rights Watch. He was the executive director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica (1996-1999), and professor of Law and director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights at the University of Notre Dame (1999-2004).

Edward Mortimer is Senior Vice-President and Chief Program Officer at the Salzburg Global Seminar. From 1998 to 2006 he served as chief speechwriter and (from 2001) as director of communications to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has spent much of his career as a journalist, first with The Times of London, and later with the Financial Times. He has also served as a fellow and/or faculty at several institutions, including Oxford University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the International Institute of Strategic Studies, among others; and on the governing bodies of several non-governmental organizations, including Chatham House, the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, and Minority Rights Group International. Mr. Mortimer received an M.A. in modern history from Oxford University. His writings include: "People, Nation, State: The Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism" (co-edited with R. Fine 1999), "The World that FDR Built" (1989), "Faith and Power: "The Politics of Islam" (1982). In the UK's 2010 New Year Honours he was awarded a CMG for services to international communications and journalism.

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Ramesh Thakur is Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Griffith University in Australia. the inaugural director of Balsillie School of International Affairs and a distinguished fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo. He served as the Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University (1998-2007) and was also Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand and Professor and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University. He was a member of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty and Senior Adviser on Reforms for the UN Secretary-General's second reform report (2002). The author and editor of over thirty books and 300 articles and book chapters, he also writes regularly for national and international newspapers around the world.

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Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. He was President of the International Studies Association (2009-10), Chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (2006-9), editor of Global Governance, Research Director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Research Professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, Executive Director of the Academic Council on the UN System and of the International Peace Academy, a member of the UN secretariat, and a consultant to several public and private agencies. He has authored or edited some 40 books and 160 articles and book chapters about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. His latest authored volumes are What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It (2009); UN Ideas That Changed the World (2009); and Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (2010).