David M. Malone

David Malone became President of the International Peace Academy (IPA) in November 1998, on leave from the Canadian Government. A career officer in the Canadian Foreign Service and occasional scholar, he was successively Director General of the bureaus of Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues of the Canadian Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry during the years 1994-98. During this period he also acquired a D.Phil. from Oxford University with a thesis focusing on decision-making in the UN Security Council. From 1992 to 1994, he was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, where he chaired the negotiations of the UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (the Committee of 34) and the UN General Assembly consultations on peace-keeping issues. From 1990 to 1992, he represented Canada on the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and related bodies. Previous foreign assignments took him to Egypt, Kuwait and Jordan. David Malone is a graduate of L’Université de Montréal, of the American University in Cairo and of Harvard University. He was a Guest Scholar in the Economic Studies Program of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, 1988-1989. He served as an Adjunct Professor of International Relations in Columbia University’s Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, 1991–1994. Since 1991, he has been a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. In 1998, he was appointed an Adjunct Research Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa. Since 1999, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law and, since 2002, a Visiting Professor at L’Institut des Études Politiques, in Paris. He has published extensively on peace and security issues. His most recent books are Decision-Making in the UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) and, with Mats Berdal (ed.), Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000). Two further volumes were published in 2002, Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, co-edited with Yuen Foong Khong) and From Reaction to Conflict Prevention: Opportunities for the UN System (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, co-edited with Fen Osler Hampson). He is currently working on a book surveying the UN Security Council in the post-Cold War era and writes commentary regularly for the International Herald Tribune and for the Globe and Mail.