Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Jean-Marie Guéhenno   (diplomat)
Born	30 October 1949 Paris, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure, École Nationale d'Administration
Member of	Brookings Institution, European Council on Foreign Relations, Georgetown Leadership Seminar/1989, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
French globalist diplomat with many ties to the making of defense and security policies.  Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations In office 1 October 2000 - 30 June 2008  International Crisis Group/President and CEO In office August 2014 - 2017  French Institute of Higher Defence Studies/Chair In office 1998 - 2000 Institut des hautes études de défense nationale

Jean-Marie Guéhenno is a former French diplomat. He is an agenda contributor to the World Economic Forum and has written several books on globalization and the demise of the national state.

Guéhenno served as the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations from 2000 to August 2008.

He was elected Chairman of the Henri Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) board at the end of 2010. From March to July 2012, he temporarily stood down from the board to serve as Deputy Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on Syria. He resumed his role as a Member and Chairman of the HD Centre Board in November 2012.

In 2012-13, Guéhenno headed President François Hollande's review of French defense and security policies.

He was director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He was also associate director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at SIPA and directed the School's International Conflict Resolution specialization.

He was named president and CEO of International Crisis Group in August 2014, succeeding Louise Arbour, resigning in 2017.

In 2021, Guehenno returned to Columbia University as the inaugural Kent Visiting Professor of Conflict Resolution. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Biography

Guéhenno is the son of the French teacher, editor and writer Jean Guéhenno, author of the Occupation memoir Journal des Années Noires and a biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other works.

Guéhenno attended the École Normale Supérieure, before going to the École Nationale d'Administration. He was then a member of the Cour des Comptes in Paris. He has also worked in international relations and diplomacy, directing the French Policy Planning Staff from 1989 to 1993, chairing the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale from 1998 to 2000 and working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France before he joined the UN.

Guéhenno served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations from 2000 to 2008. He led the largest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the UN, overseeing approximately 130,000 staff, on 18 missions.

Guéhenno is an officer of the Légion d'honneur and a commander of the Bundesverdienstkreuz. . He is married and has one daughter.

Other activities

• Carnegie Corporation of New York, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)
• Brookings Institution, Distinguished Fellow
• European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Member
• World Economic Forum (WEF), Member of the Global Future Council on the Future of International Security
• World Economic Forum (WEF), Member of the Europe Policy Group (since 2017)

Publications

Guéhenno has published articles in many newspapers and magazines, including "The Impact of Globalisation on Strategy" in the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Survival, and "Globalisation and the International System" in the Journal of Democracy, as well as articles or chapters in Internationale Politik, Prospect, Paradoxes of European Foreign Policy, and Strategic Analysis. He is the author of The End of Democracy (1993, in French) and The Fog of Peace (2015).

Bibliography

• La fin de la démocratie Paris, Flammarion, 1993 ; re-edited by Champs in 1999, ISBN 2-08-081322-6; published in English as The End of the Nation-State, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2000, 160 pages, ISBN 0816626618
• L'avenir de la liberté - La démocratie dans la mondialisation ("The Future of Freedom - Democracy in Globalisation"), Paris, Flammarion, 1999, 222 pages, ISBN 2-08-211579-8
• Jocelyn Coulon, Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Lucien Manokou, Catherine Délice, Guide du maintien de la paix, Paris, Athéna éditions, 2006, 294 pages, ISBN 2-922865-37-1
• The Fog of Peace New York, Brookings, 2015, 331 pages, ISBN 0815726368

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
A Spreading Plague	14 February 2019	14 February 2019	Germany Munich Munich Security Conference/2019	Tabletop simulation of a global biological warfare attack predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Included several senior pandemic planners. Held February 2019.
Halifax International Security Forum/2019			Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Spooky conference in Canada
Halifax International Security Forum/2020	20 November 2020	22 November 2020	Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Annual spooky conference in November, this year held online instead of in Canada due to Covid lockdowns.
Halifax International Security Forum/2021			Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Spooky conference in Canada
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2011	26 January 2011	30 January 2011	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2229 guests in Davos, with the theme: "Shared Norms for the New Reality".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."

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