The Hon. Gareth Evans
University of Melbourne Alumnus

Gareth Evans has been President of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group since January 2000, after 21 years in Australian politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister. As Foreign Minister (1988-96) he was best known internationally for his role in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, helping conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention, and helping initiate new Asia Pacific regional economic and security architecture.

He has written or edited eight books - including Cooperating for Peace, launched at the UN in 1993 - and has published over seventy journal articles and chapters on foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional reform.

In 2000 he was appointed Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, which published its final report, "The Responsibility to Protect", in December 2001.

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