Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Jean-Marie Guéhenno is a French diplomat, currently a Senior Advisor at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and a member of the UN Secretary General High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation. He is a member of the team of senior advisors of the President of the General Assembly of the UN and since 2014, Jean-Marie has been a Distinguished Fellow with Brookings Institute. He was the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the funding of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and from 2014–17, he was the President and CEO of the International Crisis Group. From 2000–08 he was Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN. Jean-Marie Guéhenno is an expert in peacekeeping, global governance and transnational security threats.