Patrons

Dewi Fortuna Anwar held the position of Assistant to the Vice President for Global Affairs (May-July 1998) and that of Assistant Minister/State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (August 1998-November 1999) of Indonesia, during the Habibie administration. Dr Anwar had worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore (1989) and as a Congressional Fellow at the US Congress in Washington D.C. (1990-1991). She was C.V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at the SAIS (Johns Hopkins University) in Washington DC from January to May 2007. She is the Director for Program and Research at The Habibie Center, Research Professor and Deputy Chairman for Social Sciences and Humanities at The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), and a member of the Board of Directors of CIDES (Center for Information and Development Studies). Dr Anwar is a Member of the International Council, the Asia Society, New York, a Board Member of The Asia Australia Institute in Sydney, a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), based in Stockholm, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU, Australia.

Lloyd Axworthy is President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. He served for twenty-one years as a member of parliament, including as Canada's Foreign Minister from 1995 to 2000. At the end of this term, Canada launched ICISS. He also worked to advance the human security concept, in particular, the global treaty banning anti-personnel landmines.

Lauro Liboon Baja Jr. was the Philippines Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 2004-2007 and represented the Philippines on the UN Security Council. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila in 1962. Between 1967 and 1972 he served as Second Secretary and then First Secretary at the Philippines embassy in London, before moving to the mission to the UN between 1972 and 1979. From 1986-1993 he served as Ambassador to Brazil and Ambassador to Italy (1997-8). In 2003, in regonition of his services, Ambassador Baja was awarded the Order of Sikatuna by President Arroyo, the highest award that a member of the foreign service may receive.

John Dauth joined the, then, Department of External Affairs in 1969 as an External Affairs Officer, later serving as a Foreign Affairs Officer in Lagos. In 1974, he was appointed First Secretary and Deputy Head of Mission in Islamabad, after which, from 1977 until 1980, he was seconded to Buckingham Palace as Assistant Press Secretary to the Queen and Press Secretary to the Prince of Wales. After heading the Commonwealth and Multilateral Organisations Section in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Canberra, Mr Dauth was appointed Charge d’Affaires in the Australian Embassy, Tehran, from 1983 to 1985. Mr Dauth was Consul-General in Noumea from 1986 to 1987, and Assistant Secretary in the Public Affairs Branch of the Department from 1987 to 1989. Following appointment as Senior Private Secretary to Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, Mr Dauth took the position of First Assistant Secretary, International Security Division, in Canberra and then served as Australia’s High Commissioner to Malaysia between 1993 and 1996. On return to Australia, Mr Dauth held the position of First Assistant Secretary, South and South East Asia Division. Mr Dauth was appointed as Deputy Secretary in March 1998. His most recent appointment was as Australia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York, from September 2001 to January 2006. Mr Dauth is currently the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Gareth Evans is President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group. Previously he was a cabinet minister in the Australian government, including Foreign Minister from 1988-96. He has written or edited eight books and published over 90 journal articles and chapters. He was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), which published its report, The Responsibility to Protect, in December 2001; and a member and co-author of the reports of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (December 2004), the Blix Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction (June 2006), and the Zedillo International Task Force on Global Public Goods (September 2006). He is currently a member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.

Kyudok Hong is currently Dean of the College of Social Sciences at the Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. He has been teaching international relations since 1993 and also served as director for external affairs for six years to help President Kyungsook Lee, who recently worked as chair of the 17th presidential transition committee. Dr. Hong is now serving as policy advisor to Chief of Staff, ROK Army, Ministry of National Defense, National Security Council and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is also a member of ASEAN Regional Forum’s EEP (Experts/Eminent Persons) and CSCAP-Korea. He also serves as Secretary General of Korean Academic Council on the United Nations System (KACUNS) and Korean Association of International Studies (KAIS). He serves as the President of International Policy Studies Institute, Korea (IPSI-Kor) founded by Dr. Han Sung-Joo.

Colin Keating is the Executive Director of the new institution Security Council Report which operates under the auspices of Columbia University and is producing regular reports on the work of the United Nations Security Council. He is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University. Ambassador Keating was formerly a New Zealand diplomat. He served as Legal Adviser of the New Zealand Foreign Ministry and also as Deputy Secretary of the Ministry responsible for management. He was the New Zealand Ambassador to the UN between 1993 and 1996 and served on the Security Council in 1993 and 1994. He was Council president during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and led the Council Mission to Somalia. Also, he chaired the Security Council Committee on Sanctions against Iraq and was actively involved in UN reform, serving as Co-Chair of the General Assembly working group dealing with reform at that time. Subsequently, he was appointed as the Secretary of Justice of New Zealand. From 2000-2004 he worked in the private sector as a partner in legal practice.

Edward Luck is the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on matters related to the Responsibility to Protect. He is also the director of the Centre on International Organization of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia faculty, he served as the founder and executive director of the Centre for the Study of International Organization, a research centre jointly established by the School of Law of New York University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University. For ten years (1984–94), Dr. Luck served as the president and CEO of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), America's principal centre for public education on the world organization, and he subsequently served for four years as the president emeritus of the organization (1994–98). From December 1995 through July 1997, Dr. Luck played a key role in the United Nations reform process as a senior consultant to the Department of Administration and Management of the United Nations and as a staff director of the General Assembly’s Open-Ended High-Level Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations System.

Vitit Muntarbhorn is a Professor of Law at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He is an eminent expert in human rights with more than 1000 publications and combines the qualities of a scholar, an educator, a policy-making adviser and a grass-root human rights activist. He has served in various capacities for the United Nations system. In 1990-1994, he was Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Professor Muntarbhorn was recently nominated Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Fidel Valdez Ramos was president of the Philippines (1992-1998). Previously, he served as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and later as Secretary of National Defense in the administration of President Corazon Aquino. He is the founder and chairman of The Ramos Peace and Development Foundation.

Ramesh Thakur is Director, Balsillie School of International Affairs, at the University of Waterloo, Canada and was Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University (1998-2007). He 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.

Tatsuro Kunugi - is a Visiting Professor, UN University-Institute of Advanced Studies, Former UN Assistant Secretary General. Tatsuro Kunugi was born in Tokyo and studied at Tokyo University. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a diploma from The Hague Academy of International Law. He was Professor at International Christian University (1990-2004) and Visiting Professor at its Centre of Excellence (2004-08). He has also been Visiting Professor at UN University-Institute of Advanced Studies since 2003. Formerly, he was UN Assistant Secretary-General 1984-90 (Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Humanitarian Assistance to Cambodia; Deputy Executive Director, UN Population Fund); Minister, Permanent Mission of Japan in Geneva 1976-83; Senior Legal Adviser, UN Peace-keeping Missions in the Middle East 1971-76. He was also Board Member, Academic Council on the UN System 1993-96; and Advisory Council Member of Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue 1999-2004. He has been Board Member, UN Association of Japan (UNAJ) since 2005; and Representative of International Cooperation Research Association, which he co-founded in 1991.

His publications in English include: Humanitarian Assistance to Cambodia (1987); The Roles of International Institutions in Promoting Sustainable Development (1992); Towards a More Effective UN (1996); Codes of Conduct for Partnership in Governance (1999); Challenges of Globalization and Synergistic Responses (2003); Redressing Security Deficits in Our Fragmented World: UN Perspectives and Beyond (2005). UN Entrepreneurship in Global Public Policy (2009); Enhancing the Political Accountability of the UN via Multistakeholder Synergy (2009).