Jean-Marie Guéhenno

    Jean-Marie Guéhenno

      Jean-Marie Guéhenno is the director of the Kent Program for Conflict Resolution and a professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. A member of the High-level Advisory board on mediation (UN) and a distinguished non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, he sits on the boards of the Carnegie Corporation and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He also chairs the scientific council of the French Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN). After leaving the French civil service, he was Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping (2000-2008) and led the biggest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the United Nations. After leaving the UN, he taught at Columbia University, but worked again with Kofi Annan as deputy special envoy for Syria (2012).  He was later president of the French commission of the White Paper for defense and national security (2012-2013), and president of the International Crisis Group (2014-2017). He is the author of several books, and his latest book, The first twenty-first century, was published in France in the fall of 2021.

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