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Nonresident Senior Fellow

Jean-Marie Guehenno

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Managing Global Order

Jean-Marie Guehenno is a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. Previously, Guehenno was the under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations at the United Nations from 2000 to 2008. He is an expert in peacekeeping, global governance and transnational security threats.



Expertise

United Nations; peacekeeping; global governance; transnational security threats

  • Language Fluency:
  • French

Background

Current Positions
Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University; Chair, Advisory Board of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research; Member, Board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Geneva

Past Positions
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, United Nations (2000-2008); Director of Policy Planning, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1989-1993); French Ambassador to the Western European Union; Chairman, French Institute of Higher Defense Studies

Awards
Commander’s Cross, German Order of Merit

Education

École normale supérieure, Paris, France


Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe Arab Spring is 2011, Not 1989April 21, 2011The International Herald Tribune

Contact Information

djwest@brookings.edu

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