Secretary-General appoints David M. Malone of Canada to be Rector of United Nations University
Following consultations with the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova, and with her concurrence, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed David M. Malone of Canada as Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo.
Dr Malone, who received his doctorate (Decision-Taking in the UN Security Council, 1990-96: The Case of Haiti) in International Relations from Oxford in 1998 under the supervision of Professor Sir Adam Roberts, will be the sixth Rector of the United Nations University, as of 1 March 2013. The decision to appoint Dr Malone was taken after an extensive international search process. Dr Malone will succeed Prof Konrad Osterwalder, a Swiss physicist who has served as UNU Rector since 2007. Dr Malone is strongly committed to research excellence and to forging closer collaborations with UN System Organizations and with other research institutes, governments, civil society and private sector actors around the world.
Currently, Dr Malone is President of Canada’s International Development Research Centre, a funding agency supporting policy-relevant research in the developing world. He was Canada’s Representative to ECOSOC and then Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (New York) from 1990 to 1994. Later, after overseeing Canada’s economic and multilateral diplomacy within Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, he was appointed Canada’s Envoy to India, Nepal and Bhutan. He also served in New York as President of the International Peace Academy (now the International Peace Institute), from 1998 to 2004, with a particular focus on research output, policy development and advocacy.
Dr Malone is also a graduate of l’École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Montreal, of the American University in Cairo and of Harvard University. Associated with New York University’s School of Law and Massey College in the University of Toronto, he is the author of Nepal in Transition: From People’s War to Fragile Peace (2012 – with Sebastian von Einsiedel and Suman Pradhan), Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy (2011) and The Law and Practice of the United Nations (2008 - with Simon Chesterman and Thomas M. Franck).
UNU is an international network of scholars that serves as a think tank for the United Nations system. The overarching goal of the UNU is to contribute to global sustainable development that will enable present generations to live a decent life in peace, in freedom, in safety, and in good health without compromising the ability of future generations to do the same. Since September 1975, when it launched its academic work at a temporary facility in Tokyo, UNU has grown to become a global research and teaching organization with 15 institutes and programmes in 13 countries worldwide, as well as administrative and services units in Tokyo (headquarters), Bonn, Kuala Lumpur, New York and Paris.
The Department is very grateful for the generous support of Dr Malone for the annual Deirdre and Paul Malone Thesis Prize for Politics and International Relations.
