Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. He is the chair of the Academic Council on the UN System and the former editor of its journal, Global Governance. He has written or edited some 35 books and numerous articles about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development.

Sam Daws is Senior Research Associate in the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University, where he is directing a project on UN Governance and Reform. He has served as a senior policy advisor on UN issues for 17 years, including three years as First Officer in the Executive Office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He previously directed a Geneva-based international consultancy, and has co-authored or edited six books.

Thomas G. Weiss, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and the CUNY Graduate Center
Sam Daws, United Nations Association UK
Michael Barnett, University of Minnesota
Martha Finnemore, The George Washington University
José Alvarez, Columbia University
Leon Gordenker, Princeton University
Christer Jönsson, Lund University
M. J. Peterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
David M. Malone, Foreign Affairs, Canada
Gert Rosenthal, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guatemala
Ralph Wilde, University College, London
James O. C. Jonah, The CUNY Graduate Center
Edward Newman, UN University
James Crawford, University of Cambridge
Thomas D. Grant, University of Cambridge
W. Pal S. Sidhu, University of Cambridge
Ngaire Woods, University of Oxford
Paul Wapner, American University
Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College
Barbara Crossette, New York Times, ret.
Keith Krause, Graduate Institute for International Studies
Rama Mani, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
Michael Doyle, Columbia University
Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University
David Cortright, Fourth Freedom Forum
George A. Lopez, University of Notre Dame
Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf, Fourth Freedom Forum
Michael Pugh, University of Bradford
Ramesh Thakur, UN University
Roland Paris, University of Colorado
Jane Boulden, Military College of Canada
Bertrand Ramcharan, UN, ret.
Richard Goldstone, Constitutional Court of South Africa, ret.
Jeff Crisp, Geneva Centre for International Migration
Charlotte Bunch, Rutgers University
Yves Beigbeder, World Health Organization, ret.
Maivân Clech Lâm, The CUNY Graduate Center
Fen Hampson, Carleton University
Christopher Penny, Carleton University
Dennis Dijkzeul, Ruhr University Bochum
Jacques Fomerand, UN University, ret.
Gian Luca Burci, World Health Organization
Nico Schrijver, Leiden University
Frank G. Madsen, Cambridge University
W. Andy Knight, University of Alberta
Richard Jolly, Sussex University
Edward C. Luck, Columbia University
Jeffrey Laurenti, Century Foundation
Chadwick Alger, Ohio State University

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