Nick Grono

Deputy President (Operations)
Brussels, Belgium

Crisis Group role:

Nick Grono has overall responsibility for Crisis Group's operations, including finance, development, security and personnel issues. Nick also leads Crisis Group's work on international justice and transitional justice issues.

Areas of expertise:

• Conflict Prevention and Resolution
• State Failure
• Early Warning
• Responsibility to Protect
• Transitional Justice
• International Criminal Court
• Afghanistan
• Pakistan
• Sudan

Professional and academic background:

• Vice-President for Advocacy and Operations, Crisis Group, 2005-2008
• Director of Research, Crisis Group, 2003-2005
• Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to the Australian Attorney General, 1998-2001
• Lawyer for Australian Government, 1996-1997, and commercial law firms, 1990-1992, 1994-1996
• Researcher, Goldman Sachs, London, 1992-1994
• Masters in Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
• Bachelor of Law with first class honours, University of Sydney Law School
• Master Class V maritime shipping qualification

Opinion pieces and articles:

• Interview on the radio program "A World of Possibilities" (click here for the full show), May 2009
• "Sudan’s False Dawn?", in Mail & Guardian, 6 March 2009
• "Deterring Future Darfurs", in Reuters: The Great Debate, 4 March 2009
• Sudan:"After the Indictment", in International Herald Tribune, 3 March 2009
• "The Politics of Ending Impunity", with Caroline Flintoft, in The Enforcement of International Criminal Law, February 2009
• "The Guests at Kabul's Garden Parties", with Joanna Nathan, The Boston Globe, 7 September 2008
• "وقف ملاحقة البشير ثمن مقبول لتحقيق السلام في دارفور؟", Al Hayat, 31 July 2008
• Sudan: "Security Council Should Make President Meet Benchmarks", with Fabienne Hara, AllAfrica.com, 25 July 2008
• "Some Fear Retaliation by Sudanese Leader", NPR, 17 July 2008
• "Justice in Sudan Not Same as Peace", The Boston Globe, 16 July 2008
• "The International Criminal Court: Success or Failure?", openDemocracy, 9 June 2008
• "There is No Quick-Fix for Afghanistan", The Guardian, 19 April 2008
• "Justice in Conflict? The ICC and Peace Processes" , with Adam O'Brien, in Courting Conflict? Justice, Peace and the ICC in Africa, by Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark (eds.), March 2008
• Pakistan: "A Failed Charm Offensive", EU Observer, 6 February 2008
• "Negotiating Justice to Understand Accountability", Expert Paper with Caroline Flintoft for Nuremberg Conference on Peace and Justice, 25 June 2007
• "Defeating Afghanistan's Drug Fix", with Joanna Nathan, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2007
• "How to Beat the Taliban", The Australian, 9 April 2007
• "Future of the World Court in Balance", with Donald Steinberg, YaleGlobal Online, 7 March 2007
• "Darfur Needs More Than Words", European Voice, 1 March 2007
• "Sudan and the ICC: A Question of Accountability", with David Mozersky, openDemocracy, 31 January 2007
• "Somalia: Nation on the Cusp of Chaos or Resurrection", The Australian, 8 January 2007
• "The Role of the International Criminal Court in Peace Processes: Mutually Reinforcing or Mutually Exclusive?", IPPR briefing paper, 28 November 2006
• "Exorcising the Ghost of the ICC", with Adam O’Brien, The Monitor, 31 October 2006
• "What Comes First, Peace or Justice?", International Herald Tribune, 26 October 2006
• "Darfur: The International Community’s Failure to Protect", African Affairs, 30 September 2006
• "ماذا يقول المؤتمر الوطني في هذه الاتهامات؟", with John Prendergast, Al Ayyam, 28 August 2006
• "To Halt Sudan's Atrocities, Follow the Money", with John Prendergast, International Herald Tribune, 22 August 2006
• "Not Too Late for Afghanistan", with Joanna Nathan, www.crisisgroup.org, 17 August 2006
• "Afghanistan: Keep up the War on Terror at its Source", with Joanna Nathan, The Australian, 8 August 2006
• "Europe and Darfur", letter to the International Herald Tribune, 23 May 2006
• "Conflict Resolution in Africa", with Peter Kagwanja, www.crisisgroup.org, 10 November 2004
• "Now It's Happening in the Ivory Coast", with Stephen Ellis, International Herald Tribune, 8 April 2004
• "Trying Times in Uganda", with Jim Terrie, The Diplomat, 5 April 2004

Speeches

• The Role of International Justice Mechanisms in Fragile States, to the Overseas Development Institute, 9 October 2009
• Afghanistan: The International Community’s Role in Defeating the Insurgency, to the NATO Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Security Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan on 25 June 2009, 25 June 2009
• Policing in Conflict States – Lessons from Afghanistan, to International Police Commissioners’ Conference in The Hague, 19 June 2009
• Looking to the Future: What Role Can International Justice Play in Preventing Future Conflicts, Wilton Park, 9 December 2008
• Assessing the Overall Security Situation in Afghanistan, NATO Parliamentary Assembly seminar, 17 April 2008
• Success in Afghanistan: How to Define it, How to Make it Happen, European Policy Centre, 2 April 2008
• What Comes First, Peace or Justice?, Princeton University, 12 March 2007
• Darfur: What Should the EU Do?, 28 February 2007
• Fragile States: Searching for Effective Approaches and the Right Mix of Instruments, 29 January 2007
• The Challenge of Anticipating Conflict, 11 November 2006
• ICC's Prosecutorial Strategy for 2007-2009, 26 September 2006
• Confronting the Atrocities in Darfur, 23 June 2006
• Natural Resources and Conflict, 31 May 2006
• Early Warning and the Responsibility to Prevent Conflicts, 24 April 2006
• The European Union's Strategy for Africa, Testimony to House of Lords EU Committee, 21 March 2006
• Improving the International Response to Conflicts in Africa, 14 March 2006
• Addressing the links between conflicts and natural resources, 10 February 2006
• NATO Deployment to the South of Afghanistan, Testimony to Dutch Parliament, 30 January 2006
• Darfur: The International Community’s Failure to Protect, 29 November 2005
• The Present Human Rights Situation in Nepal, 29 March 2005