Gareth Evans

President and CEO
Brussels, Belgium

Speeches
Biography (short version)
Biography (full version) 
Bibliography
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To access the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, entitled "The Responsibility to Protect" (December 2001), please click here.

To access "A More Secure World: Our Shared Reponsibility", a report of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Changes, please click here.

Crisis Group role:

President and Chief Executive Officer
Joined Crisis Group January 2000

Areas of expertise:

• International relations: conflict prevention and resolution, humanitarian intervention, rules governing use of military force  
• UN system and reform
• Disarmament – weapons of mass destruction

Professional background:

• University lecturer in law and practising barrister 1970-78
• Member of the Australian Parliament 1978-1999 (Leader of Government in Senate 1993-96, Deputy Leader of Opposition 1996-98).
• Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments for 13 years: Attorney General (1983-84), Minister for Resources and Energy (1984-87), Minister for Transport and Communications (1987-88) and Foreign Minister (1988-1996)
• 2000-2001: Co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS)
• 2003-2004: member of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
• 2003-present: member of Zedillo International Task Force on Global Public Goods
• 2004-present: member of the Blix Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction

Publications and media:

• Written or edited eight books, including Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s (1993) and Australia's Foreign Relations (1991, 2nd ed 1995).
• Over 80 chapters in books and journal articles (and many more newspaper and magazine articles) on foreign relations, politics, human rights and legal reform.

Languages:

• English (native)

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