Richard Gowan UN Director New York Please submit all media inquiries to media@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role Richard oversees Crisis Group's advocacy work at the United Nations, liaising with diplomats and UN officials in New York. Professional Background Richard was previously a Consulting Analyst with ICG in 2016 and 2017. He has worked with the European Council on Foreign Relations, New York University Center on International Cooperation and the Foreign Policy Centre (London). He has taught at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Stanford in New York. He has also worked as a consultant for the organisations including UN Department of Political Affairs, the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on International Migration, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Rasmussen Global, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Global Affairs Canada. From 2013 to 2019, he wrote a weekly column ("Diplomatic Fallout") for World Politics Review. Areas of Expertise The United Nations system Security Council Peacekeeping European security Early warning and conflict prevention In The News 21 Sep 2020 Frankly, there’s a degree of exhaustion with this administration (the Trump Administration) in the Security Council. Foreign Policy Richard Gowan UN Director 15 Aug 2020 The fact is that everybody at the UN believes this (resolution) is just a prelude to a US effort to trigger snapback and sink the Iranian nuclear deal. The Asia Times Richard Gowan UN Director 5 Aug 2020 There's a very high level of concern that [COVID-19]'s economic impact is going to spark more disorder, more conflict. Japan Today Richard Gowan UN Director 8 May 2020 The UN Security Council has lost some credibility as the weeks have gone by, mainly thanks to U.S. obstructionism. Reuters Richard Gowan UN Director 20 Apr 2020 The Americans have insisted that any Council resolution [...] should explicitly reference its origins in China [...]. The world's top powers are indulging in a silly blame game in a moment of crisis." Swissinfo Richard Gowan UN Director 8 Apr 2020 This crisis has shown that neither China nor the U.S. is ready and able to lead the U.N. system. Foreign Policy Richard Gowan UN Director Latest Updates Q&A / Multilateral Diplomacy 17 September 2020 Behind the Snapback Debate at the UN In mid-August, Washington notified the UN Security Council that it was launching a 30-day process to “snap back” UN sanctions against Iran. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts Richard Gowan, Ashish Pradhan and Naysan Rafati explain what this step implies for the 2015 nuclear agreement. Also available in العربية, فارسی Op-Ed / United States 28 August 2020 A diplomatic breakdown over “snapback” tests the UN Originally published in The Interpreter Commentary / The Covid-19 Pandemic and Deadly Conflict 4 August 2020 Salvaging the Security Council’s Coronavirus Response On 1 July, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for a global COVID-19 ceasefire, as the Secretary-General had urged months earlier. Their appeal has fallen flat. Council members should use their August downtime to look at how it might still do some good. Speech / Global 16 June 2020 What’s Happened to the UN Secretary-General’s COVID-19 Ceasefire Call? This is an expanded and updated version of remarks originally given to a conference organised by Mitvim – the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies and the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on 17 May 2020. A conference summary is available here. Op-Ed / Global 6 March 2020 Remembering Javier Pérez de Cuéllar’s “Piecemeal” Approach to UN Peacemaking Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, died this week. In this piece, originally published in World Politics Review in February, our UN Director assesses his legacy. Originally published in World Politics Review Load more