Prof. Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, a Barrister with degrees in philosophy, history and law, has been Chief Speechwriter to the UN Secretary-General, Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (Prevention, Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding), Director in the UN Department of Political Affairs, Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights, Professor at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and Chancellor of the University of Guyana. He wrote the first draft of Agenda for Peace and has published books on UN preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, peacekeeping and human rightsDr. Robin Ramcharan, Professor of International Relations (IR) at Webster University Thailand, with qualifications in International History, human rights, IR and International Law. He is also Executive Director of Asia Centre, a regional think tank and Director of the Research Institute on Preventive Diplomacy in ASEAN (RIPDA), both in Bangkok. He specializes in international security issues, especially traditional and non-traditional security in Southeast Asia. He has held teaching positions in in Canada, India, Switzerland and Thailand, notably at McGill University and the University of Toronto. He was also Professor at Alliance University, Bangalore, India, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and Visiting Researcher at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He worked in international development cooperation at the World Intellectual Property Organization and in global problem solving at the World Economic Forum.
