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David M. Malone, born in 1954, is a Canadian author on international security and development, as well as a career diplomat. He is a former president of the
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, and a frequently quoted expert on international affairs, especially on Indian Foreign Policy and the work of the UN Security Council. He became president of the
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in 2008 and served until 2013. On 1 March 2013, he took up the position of UN Under-Secretary-General, Rector of the
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, headquartered in
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, Japan.


Education

David Malone is bilingual in French and in English and passed the French exam ''Baccalauréat'' in Ecole Saint Martin in Pontoise (France).He holds a degree from l’
École des Hautes Études Commerciales HEC Paris (french: École des hautes études commerciales de Paris) is a business school, and one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles, located in Jouy-en-Josas, France. HEC offers Master in Management, MSc International Fi ...
(Montreal); studied at
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; holds an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and earned a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford University.


Career


Diplomatic career

Malone served as a Canadian Ambassador to the UN from 1992 to 1994, after representing Canada on the UN's Economic and Social Council, 1990-92. He was appointed as the Canadian High Commissioner to India, and the non-resident Ambassador to
Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...
and
Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
, 2006-2008.


International Peace Institute

From 1998 until 2004, when
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took over, he was the president of the International Peace Institute, then known as the International Peace Academy. He has spoken at the
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.


International Development Research Centre

Malone was president of the
International Development Research Centre The International Development Research Centre (IDRC; french: Centre de recherches pour le développement international, ''CRDI'') is a Canadian federal Crown corporation that funds research and innovation within and alongside developing regions ...
, a Canadian crown corporation that supports evidence-based and policy relevant research into healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies in the global south, 2008-2013, and became president in July 2008.


Haiti

Malone has a long-term interest in Haiti, which he visited as part of UN delegations and as a representative of human rights groups. His book ''Decision-Making in the UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti'' is "an account of the struggle to address the Haiti crisis from 1990 to 1998." A former supporter of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, he was highly critical of the international pressure that resulted in Aristide's ousting, singling out the United States, France, and Canada in a 2004 op-ed piece published in the '' International Herald Tribune'' and ''
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''. In an interview with the '' Neue Zürcher Zeitung'', he expressed mixed optimism that a lengthy (15 to 20 years) international involvement might bring about positive change, but lamented the lack of interest in "Paris, Washington, or even Ottawa" in a long-term strategy. In an op-ed piece in ''The New York Times'' written with Kirsti Samuels (also of the International Peace Institute) published in July 2004, he advocated an international commitment to long-term nation-building for Haiti.


India

Malone has also focused extensively on India’s international relations. He wrote a monograph, ‘Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy’, Oxford University Press, 2011, and in 2015 co-edited a wide-ranging survey of Indian Foreign Policy , with C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan, comprising a wide range of essays for Oxford University Press on the same topic primarily written by Indian authors, including many young ones. He is one of the foreign scholars most often cited on India's international relations. He remains engaged with the topic.


United Nations University

Malone was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as Rector of the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo on 3 October 2012. He took up this position on 1 March 2013, and will retired from it on February 28, 2023. He published five books during his tenure, including ‘The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region’, co-edited with Devesh Kapur, Lily Kong and Florence Lo, comprising multiple chapters written primarily by authors from the region, to be published by Oxford University Press in November 2022.


Authorship

Malone has written a number of books, many of them concerned with the United Nations, international development, international security and Indian foreign policy. He frequently published academic chapters and articles in scholarly volumes and journals. As well, he writes regularly for the Literary Review of Canada. Earlier he had written on the political economy of civil wars, on the causes of violent conflict and conflict prevention, on Security Council decision-making, on Haiti and on Iraq. Malone's ''The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005'' was nominated for the 2006-2007
Lionel Gelber Prize The Lionel Gelber Prize is a literary award for English non-fiction books on foreign policy. Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, the prize awards "the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deep ...
, an award given annually to the best book on international affairs.


Books authored and edited

* " The Law and Practice of the UN",2nd Ed., co-authored with Simon Chesterman and Ian Jonhstone (Oxford UP, 2016) * " The Oxford Handbook on Indian Foreign Policy", co-edited with C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan (Oxford UP, 2015) * " The UN Security Council in the 21st Century", co-edited with Sebastian von Einsiedel and Bruno Stagno Ugarte, (Lynne Rienner 2014) * ''International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects'', co-edited with Bruce Currie-Alder,
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and Rohinton Medhora (Oxford UP, 2014) * ''Nepal in Transition: From Civil War to Fragile Peace'', co-edited with Sebastian von Einsiedel and Suman Pradhan (Cambridge UP, 2012) * ''Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy'' (Oxford UP, 2011) * ''The Law and Practice of the United Nations'', co-authored by
Simon Chesterman Simon Chesterman is an Australian legal academic and writer who is currently vice-provost at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and dean of the NUS's Faculty of Law and NUS College. He is also a senior director for AI Governance at AI Si ...
and Thomas M. Franck (Oxford UP, 2008) * ''Preventing a Future Generation of Conflict in Iraq'', co-edited by Markus Bouillon and Ben Rowswell (Lynne Rienner, 2007) * ''The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980-2005'' (Oxford UP, 2006) * ''The UN Security Council From Cold War to Twenty-First Century'' (Lynne Rienner, 2004) * ''Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy'', co-edited by Yuen Foong Khong (Lynne Rienner, 2002) * ''From Reaction to Conflict Prevention'', co-edited by Fen Osler Hampson (Lynne Rienner, 2002) * ''Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars'', co-edited by Mats Berdal, (Lynne Rienner, 2000) * ''Decision-Making in the UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti'' (Oxford UP, 1999)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malone, David M 1954 births Living people High Commissioners of Canada to India Ambassadors of Canada to Bhutan Ambassadors of Canada to Nepal Permanent Representatives of Canada to the United Nations United Nations University faculty Harvard Kennedy School alumni Scholars of Indian foreign policy The American University in Cairo alumni Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs