Bruce Jones

Dr. Bruce Jones is Director and Senior Fellow of the NYU Center on International Cooperation, and Senior Fellow and Director of the Managing Global Order Initiative at the Brookings Institution, where he leads research on international order and global governance. He is also the Senior External Advisor for the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011 on Conflict, Security and Development. In March 2010 Dr. Jones was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General as a member of the Senior Advisory Group to guide the Review of International Civilian Capacities. Dr. Jones has served the United Nations in several capacities. He was Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General during the UN reform effort leading up to the World Summit 2005 and in the same period was Acting Secretary of the Secretary-General’s Policy Committee. From 2004 to 2005, he was Deputy Research Director of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. From 2000 to 2002 he was Special Assistant to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process and held assignments in the UN Interim Mission in Kosovo and in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.