Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan

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Michael Williams (2014)

Michael Charles Williams Baron Williams of Baglan, (* 11. June 1949 , † 23. April 2017 ) was a British diplomat and politician of the Labor Party , which many diplomatic functions within the United Nations perceived and (UN) since 2010. Member of the House of Lords was where he belonged to the Crossbencher group .

Life

Diplomat and promotion to UN Under-Secretary-General

After attending Sandfields Comprehensive School in Baglan , Wales , Williams began studying international relations at University College London (UCL), which he completed in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. International Relations). He then completed a degree in development aid at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and graduated in 1973 with a Master of Science (M.Sc. Politics of Development Studies). He then completed a postgraduate degree in political science at SOAS with a doctorate in politics.

He then joined the Foreign Service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office . At the beginning of the 1990s, after assignments in the British Foreign Office and diplomatic missions abroad, he increasingly took on leading positions within the United Nations. First he was Director of the UN for Human Rights in Cambodia between 1992 and 1993 and then Director of the Information Department of the United Nations Protection Force in Croatia , before he was a Senior Fellow at the think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies from 1995 to 1998 ( IISS) worked.

After retiring from this position, Williams was Director of the United Nations Office on Children and Armed Conflict in New York City from 1999 to 2000 and was subsequently Special Advisor to the then British Foreign Ministers Robin Cook and Jack Straw between 2000 and 2005 .

In 2005 he returned to the UN headquarters in New York City, where he was Director for the Middle East and Asia until 2006 and then Special Coordinator of the UN for the Middle East, before being Special Representative of Great Britain for the Middle East and special projects between 2007 and 2008 . Since August 2008 he has been UN Special Coordinator in the UN Secretariat for Lebanon as the successor to Johan Verbeke .

House of Lords

On July 23, 2010 he was raised to the nobility by a letters patent as a life peer with the title Baron Williams of Baglan , of Neath Port Talbot in Glamorgan . On 18 October 2010 his was carried Introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords , where he then for a year between October 2010 and October 2011 by a so-called Leave of Absence was exempted from participating in the meetings of the House of Lords.

In December 2011, he left the Labor Party faction , having previously been appointed trustee of the BBC Trust . Since then he has belonged to the group of non-party peers, the so-called Crossbencher .

He was also a visiting fellow of the Chatham House- based Royal Institute of International Affairs and a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Peace Center in Toledo .

Publications

  • Communism, Religion and Revolt in Banten (1990)
  • Vietnam at the Crossroads (1992)
  • Civil-Military Relations and Peacekeeping (1998)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former UN Lebanon coordinator dies at 67 . Xinhuanet , April 25, 2017, accessed April 30, 2017.
  2. ^ Secretary-General appoints Michael Williams of United Kingdom as Special Coordinator for Lebanon; Johan Verbeke of Belgium as Special Representative for Georgia. Press release of the UN Secretary General , August 5, 2008, accessed April 30, 2017.
  3. ^ Members of the House of Lords granted leave of absence. United Kingdom Parliament , archived from the original on June 5, 2011 ; accessed on April 30, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Michael, Baron Williams of Baglan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Michael Charles, Baron Williams of Baglan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1949
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2017