Susanna P. Campbell is assistant professor at the School of International Service at American University. Her research and teaching addresses state building, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, international development and humanitarian aid, global governance, IO and INGO behavior, and the microdynamics of civil war and peace. Her first book, Global Governance and Local Peace: Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding (2018), argues that seemingly “bad behavior” by country-based staff is necessary for good peacebuilding performance. She is currently finishing a coauthored second book, Aid in Conflict, that explains the aid allocation behavior of international donors in war-torn countries. She has led evaluations of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund and World Bank interventions in war-torn countries and worked for the Council on Foreign Relations, UNICEF Burundi, and the International Crisis Group. susanna.campbell@american.edu
Adam Day is director of programmes at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research in New York. He previously served as senior political adviser to the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO); in the UN Special Coordinator's Office for Lebanon; in both the United Nations Mission in Sudan (Khartoum) and the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID); and as a political officer in both the Departments of Political Affairs and Peacekeeping Operations. Day also has substantial civil society experience, working in Human Rights Watch's Justice Program and for the Open Society Justice Initiative in Cambodia. Earlier, he was an international litigator in New York and supported the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He has published in the areas of international criminal law, head-of-state immunity for international crimes, and rule of law in post-conflict settings, with publications including “Politics in the Driving Seat: Good Offices, UN Peace Operations, and Modern Conflict,” in Cedric de Coning and Mateja Peter, eds., United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order (2019); “Supporting Local Reconciliation: Lessons Learned from Across the UN System,” in Michael Keating and Matt Waldman, eds., War and Peace in Somalia: National Grievances, Local Conflict and Al-Shabaab (2019); and Capturing UN Preventive Diplomacy Success: How and Why Does It Work? (coauthored with Laurie Nathan, João Honwana, and Rebecca Brubaker; 2018). adam.day@unu.edu
Sarah C. Goff is a research associate and guest teacher in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on fairness in trade, economic justice, and discrimination. She has published articles on these topics in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Res Publica, and Social Theory and Practice. s.goff@lse.ac.uk
Kirsten Haack is senior lecturer in international politics at Northumbria University. She is the author of The United Nations Democracy Agenda: A Conceptual History (2011) and has published numerous articles on the UN secretary-general and women's access to leadership in the UN and other international organizations. She was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Organisation Studies. kirsten.haack@northumbria.ac.uk
Sophie Harman is professor of international politics at Queen Mary University of London, where she teaches and conducts research on global health politics, Africa and international relations, and visual politics. Her research is currently funded by the Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by The Leverhulme Trust. s.harman@qmul.ac.u
Maria Ivanova is associate professor of global governance and director of the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Her work focuses on the performance of international institutions, implementation of international environmental agreements, and sustainability. From 2014 to 2018, Ivanova served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the United Nations Secretary-General. She is the chair of the board of United Nations University's Institute for Advanced Study of Sustainability and an Andrew Carnegie fellow. In 2018, Ivanova chaired the jury for the $5 million New Shape Prize for global governance awarded by the Global Challenges Foundation. maria.ivanova@umb.edu
Devaki Jain is an honorary fellow of St Anne's College at the University of Oxford. She was a lecturer in economics at Delhi University from 1963 to 1969, and then founded and served as the director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), a research center in Delhi. Over the course of her career, she also founded a wide range of other institutions, including Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)—a Third World network of women social scientists. She has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Boston University, University of Sussex, the School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, and Oxford University. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the president of India, in the honors list of 2006, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Westville in Durban, South Africa. She has published more than ten books related to development with women and more than one hundred papers on the same issue.
Margaret P. Karns is professor emerita of political science at the University of Dayton, and, since 2015, she has been a visiting professor in the Global Governance and Human Security PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. With Karen Mingst of the University of Kentucky, she has published three books: International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance (2015); The United Nations in the Post-Cold War Era (2016); and The United States and Multilateral Institutions: Patterns of Instrumentality and Influence (1990). She has authored or coauthored numerous articles on UN peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding, global governance, and the future of the UN system. Her current research focuses on women in leadership in global governance. margaret.karns@umb.edu
Anthony “Tony” F. Lang, Jr. is professor of international political theory at the University of St Andrews. He received his PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. He was an assistant professor in political science at the American University in Cairo from 1996 through 2000, and then served as a program officer at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs from 2000 through 2003. Since 2004, he has been at the University of St Andrews, where he founded the Centre for Global Constitutionalism. He has published three single-authored books; edited eight books; and published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews. His current research focuses on the intersection of politics, ethics, and law at the global level, with a focus on global constitutionalism, the use of force, and the politics of responsibility. al51@st-andrews.ac.uk
David M. Malone is United Nations under-secretary general and rector of the United Nations University. Prior to joining the United Nations University, Malone served as president of Canada's International Development Research Centre, a funding agency supporting policy-relevant research in the developing world. Earlier, he served as Canada's representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and as ambassador to the United Nations (1990–1994); as director general of the Policy, International Organizations, and Global Issues bureaus within the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT, 1994–1998); and as president of the International Peace Academy (now the International Peace Institute). He oversaw Canada's economic and multilateral diplomacy within DFAIT (2004–2006) and served as Canada's high commissioner to India and nonresident ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal (2006–2008). Malone also has held research posts at the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution; at Massey College at the University of Toronto; and at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Malone has published extensively in both academic and less formal veins. His recent books include The UN Security Council in the 21st Century (co-edited with Sebastian von Einsiedel and Bruno Stagno Ugarte; 2015) and Law and Practice of the United Nations, 2nd ed. (coauthored with Simon Chesterman and Ian Johnstone; 2016). In 2019, he published The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Treaties (co-edited with Simon Chesterman and Santiago Villalpando) and Megaregulation Contested: Economic Ordering after TPP (co-edited with Atsushi Sunami, Thomas Sunami, Thomas Streinz, Richard B. Stewart, Paul Mertenskötter, and Benedict Kingsbury). malone@unu.edu
Jack McDonald is a lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. His most recent book is Enemies Known and Unknown: Targeted Killings in America's Transnational War (2017). He studies the relationship between ethics, technology, and strategy. His current book project examines the rise of data ethics in armed conflict. jack.mcdonald@kcl.ac.uk
Jean-Pierre Murray is a doctoral candidate in the Global Governance and Human Security program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was the 2018 winner of the Fred Hartmann award for the best graduate student paper, presented at the International Studies Association-Northeast Annual Conference, for a paper entitled, “The UNODC and the Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking: Explaining the Organizational (Mis)Fit.” He is currently assistant lecturer at the University of West Indies at Mona, Jamaica, and research associate at el Centro para la Observación Migratoria y Desarrollo Social en el Caribe (OBMICA) in Santo Domingo. jeanpierre.murray001@umb.edu
Bertrand Ramcharan is a barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn, with a doctorate in international law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a diploma in international law from the Hague Academy of International Law. He has been chancellor of the University of Guyana, professor of international human rights law at the Graduate Institute Geneva, deputy and then acting UN high commissioner for human rights, commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists, and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He has received the award of Eminent Caribbean Jurist from the Caribbean Court of Justice. He has published several books on international law and human rights, including Contemporary Human Rights Ideas (2008) and Modernizing the UN Human Rights System (2019). He has also published Preventive Diplomacy at the United Nations (2008) and International Peace Conferences (2014).
Ellen Ravndal is an associate professor in political science at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She holds a DPhil in international relations from the University of Oxford, and has previously taught at Lund University and the Australian National University. Her research broadly focuses on international organizations (IOs)—including the UN secretary-general, IO autonomy, and the history of IOs—and has appeared in journals such as Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, the International History Review, and the Review of International Studies. ellen.ravndal@uis.no
Ramesh Thakur is emeritus professor at the Australian National University, and was formerly senior vice rector of the United Nations University and UN assistant secretary-general. Educated in India and Canada, he has held academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. He was a commissioner and a principal author of the Responsibility to Protect; principal writer of Kofi Annan's second reform report; foundation director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario; and co-convenor of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. His books include: Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (coauthored with Thomas G. Weiss; 2010); The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect (2006); and Reviewing the Responsibility to Protect: Origins, Implementation and Controversies (2020). ramesh.thakur@anu.edu.au
