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Biographies, David Malone

President, International Peace Academy
Special Advisor to the G8 Research Group on Conflict Prevention and Human and International Security
malone@ipacademy.org

List of Lectures

David Malone has been president of the International Peace Academy since 1998, on leave from the Government of Canada. A career Canadian Foreign Service officer and occasional scholar, he has served as Director General of the Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues bureaus of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. From 1992 to 1994, Dr. Malone 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 peacekeeping issues. He has also represented Canada on the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and related bodies.

Dr. Malone has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, and has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the New York University School of Law. He is a Senior Associate Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. Dr. Malone holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University with a thesis on decision making in the UN Security Council.

List of Lectures

3. The United Nations System and Its Contribution
18. The New Plan for African Development