Jean-Marie Guéhenno is director of the Kent Global Leadership Program for Conflict Resolution and professor of practice at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. A member of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation (UN), the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (UN), and a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution, he sits on the boards of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and the École normale supérieure in Paris. He also chairs the scientific council of the French Institute for Higher Defense Studies. After leaving the French civil service, he was UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping (2000–2008), leading the biggest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the United Nations. Following his service with the UN, Guéhenno taught at Columbia University, but he again worked with Kofi Annan as UN deputy special envoy for Syria (2012). He later served as president of the commission that produced the French White Paper for Defense and National Security (2012–2013), and as president of the International Crisis Group (2014–2017). He is the author of several books, including Le premier XXIe siècle: De la globalisation à l’émiettement du monde, which was published in France in the fall of 2021.
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