The United Nations in a world of power politics: past achievements and future challenges

Speaker: Mr Sam Daws
Date: Tuesday 29 April 2008
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Chamber, Cambridge Union

Sam Daws is the Executive Director of the UNA-UK. He has been a senior policy adviser on UN issues for more than 18 years, including serving for three years as First Officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Sam has degrees in social anthropology and international conflict analysis, undertook doctoral studies on UN Security Council reform at the University of Oxford, and has been a visiting fellow at Yale University, and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of Cambridge University. He is the author or co-editor of six books on the UN, including ‘The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations’.