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Professor Jean-Marie Guéhenno 

Director, SIPA Kent Global Leadership Program on conflict resolution
Former President and CEO, International Crisis Group 
United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, 2000-2008

The Decline of Nations:
Fragmented Societies in a Fragmented World 

PATRON EVENT
September 22, 2022
6:30- 8:00pm

The Century Association
7 West 43rd Street
New York City
This event will only be offered in person

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Professor Jean-Marie Guéhenno is the inaugural Kent visiting professor in conflict resolution at Columbia University’s School for International & Public Affairs (SIPA). He is also a member of the U.N. Secretary General High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation, a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution, and he chairs the scientific committee of the Institute for Higher Defense Studies in Paris. Professor Guéhenno is former president and chief executive officer of the International Crisis Group, an independent organization working to prevent war and shape policy. From 2000 to 2008, he served as the United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for peacekeeping operation, when he led the largest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the UN, overseeing approximately 130,000 staff on eighteen missions.

Guéhenno served as director of policy planning in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to the Western European Union, and chairman of the French Institute of Higher Defense Studies. In addition he has taught extensively at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris and at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration. He is a board member of the Carnegie Corporation, of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and of his alma mater, the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Members may invite guests with a $45 fee per guest. 

All lecture attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask.