Professor Ramesh Thakur is is a distinguished fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo and was Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University (1998-2007).
Ramesh Thakur
Distinguished Fellow
Centre for International Governance Innovation
57 Erb St West
Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6C2
Canada
Tel: (519) 885-2444 ext 291
Email:
rthakur@cigionline.org
He received his education in India (BA Hons, University
of Calcutta) and Canada (MA, Ph D, Queen's University in Kingston).
He was formerly Professor and Head of the Peace Research Centre
at the Australian University in Canberra (1995 - 98); and Professor
of International Relations and Director of Asian Studies at the
University of Otago in New Zealand (1980 - 95). He was a member
of the National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament
in Australia, having previously been a member of the Public Advisory
Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament in New Zealand. He is
the author/editor of over a dozen books, the most recent being
Keeping
Proliferation at Bay (1998),
Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain:
The United Nations at Fifty (1998), and
Nuclear Weapons-Free
Zones (1998). He has written some 130 articles for journals
and chapters for books, including 'India in the World: Neither Rich,
Powerful, nor Principled',
Foreign Affairs (July/August 1997).
He also writes periodically for the quality press, including the
Australian, the
Australian Financial Review, the
Asian
Wall Street Journal, the I
nternational Herald Tribune,
and the
Japan Times.