• HD’s Executive Director since 2011
  • Previously worked for the United Nations, including in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and Timor Leste. Author of the UN Secretary-General’s landmark report on the fall of Srebrenica
  • Now serves on the UN Secretary-General’s high-level advisory board on mediation
  • Former chair of the World Economic Forum conflict prevention council, adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Affairs and teaching fellow at Harvard’s Department of Government, where he taught Chinese politics
  • Publishes widely on issues surrounding conflict and international relations
  • Master’s degree from Harvard, Doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and graduate diploma from Beijing University