International Advisory Council

Dr. Samina Ahmed is the Project Director, South Asia, of the International Crisis Group.

Lloyd Axworthy is president and vice chancellor of the University of Winnipeg and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada.

Ambassador Peter Burleigh is Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Mission in India and the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and for Counter-Terrorism.

Jeremy Carver CBE is Consultant and Co-Head of International Law at the global law firm Clifford Chance LLP.

Professor Margaret Doxey is emeritus Professor of Politics, Trent University, Ontario, and the author of numerous books, articles and reports on international sanctions.

Kimberly Ann Elliott is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and co-author of Economic Sanctions Reconsidered.

Ambassador Robert R. Fowler was Canada's longest serving Ambassador to the United Nations; Deputy Minister of Canada's National Defence; and  Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Ministers Trudeau, Turner, and Mulroney.

Ibrahim Gambari is the Joint Special Representative of the African Union – United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur.

Professor Richard Garfield is Professor of Clinical International Nursing at the School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Dr. Hadewych Hazelzet is an Official at the EU Council of Ministers, where she is Deputy Head of Unit Council, General Secretariat (GSC), DG External and Politico-Military Affairs, Directorate Civilian Crisis Management.

Lee H. Hamilton is director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University, former Representative from Indiana's 9th congressional district, and the former Chair of the House Committee on International Relations.

Ambassador Ellen Margrethe Loej is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Liberia and the former Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations.

Dr. Amitabh Mattoo is Director of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu.

Loraine Rickard-Martin has served as Senior Political Affairs Officer in the Security Council Affairs Division of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs in support of multiple sanctions committees.

James C. Ngobi is a former director in the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs at the United Nations Secretariat, where he worked in support of Security Council sanctions programs.

Ambassador Curtis A. Ward is a former ambassador of Jamaica to the United Nations and former expert adviser to the Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee.

Claudette Werleigh is the Secretary-General of Pax Christi International and the former Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti.

Joanna Weschler is Research Director of Security Council Report and a research scholar at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.