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Distinguished Honorary Professor, Australian National University

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC KC was a Cabinet Minister throughout the Hawke-Keating Governments, including as Foreign Minister from 1988-96, where he played central roles in the creation of APEC and the ASEAN Regional Forum, the Cambodian peace process, and in bringing to conclusion the Chemical Weapon Convention. From 2000 to 2009 he was President and CEO of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, and from 2010 to 2019 served as Chancellor of the Australian National University, where he is now Distinguished Honorary Professor.

He has co-chaired two major commissions, the International Commissions on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001) and on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (2009), and has written or edited, singly or jointly, fourteen books – including Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency (2022), Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir (2017), Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play (2015), Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary (2014), The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (2009) and Australia’s Foreign Relations (1991, 1995). In June 2008, he was made an Inaugural Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian international relations. He has received a number of national and international honours, most recently, in May 2023, the ROK Jeju Peace Prize for his significant contribution over three decades to promoting peace, reconciliation and human rights as foreign minister, NGO head, international commission member, writer and advocate.

Gareth Evans has maintained strong academic and scholarly connections throughout his career, lecturing at many universities around the world. In May 2004, he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of UN Studies at Yale; the Advisory Council of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford; and the Editorial Advisory Board of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

Experience

  • –present
    Chancellor, Australian National University
  • –present
    Fellow, Foreign Policy Association
  • –present
    Member, International Advisory Board of the Pew Global Attitudes Survey
  • –present
    Member, International Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National Universit
  • –present
    Inaugural Fellow, Australian Institute of International Affairs

Education

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    University of Melbourne, BA LLB (Hons)
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    Oxford, MA