Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Jean-Marie Guéhenno is a French diplomat and expert in peacekeeping, global governance and transnational security threats. He is currently a Senior Advisor at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation. He is a member of the team of senior advisors of the President of the General Assembly of the UN and, since 2014, Guéhenno has been a Distinguished Fellow with Brookings Institute. He was the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the funding of the African Union Mission in Somalia and, from 2014–17, he was the President and CEO of the International Crisis Group. From 2000–2008 he was Under-Secretary-General for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations.