Members

The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.

Ramesh THAKUR

Ramesh THAKUR

Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University

Ramesh Thakur is an Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University; a Senior Research Fellow of the Toda Peace Institute, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He is a former Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations) and Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the ANU.

Professor Thakur is emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Senior Research Fellow, Toda Peace Institute; and Fellow, Australian Institute of International Affairs. He was formerly Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations; a Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protect; Principal Writer of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s second reform report; a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation and Foundation Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario; and Co-Convenor of the Asia–Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. His books include Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey (Indiana University Press); The Group of Twenty (G20) (Routledge); The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford University Press); Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015 (CNND); Nuclear Weapons and International Security: Selected Essays (Routledge); The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect, 2nd Ed. (Cambridge University Press); and The Nuclear Ban Treaty: A Transformational Reframing of the Global Nuclear Order (Routledge). He is also a regular media commentator and his research interests include Asian Security, Nuclear Weapons Policy, Arms Control and Disarmament, Responsibility to Protect, and Global Governance.