President of the International Crisis Group, based in Brussels, Belgium; Co-Chair of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the Ralph Bunche Institute at the City University of New York; former member of the United Nations high-level panel appointed by Kofi Annan to look at restructuring the UN Security Council; former Foreign Minister from Australia
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