The Honourable Gareth Evans AO QC
Chancellor of the Australian National University and former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Gareth Evans was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.
Evans spent 21 years in Australian politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister. As Foreign Minister he helped develop the UN peace plan for Cambodia, conclude the Chemical Weapons Convention, and Asia Pacific regional economic and security institution building. He was inaugurated as Chancellor of the Australian National University in 2010 and is a Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne.
President Emeritus of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, an independent conflict prevention and resolution organisation, Evans was awarded the 2010 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Stitching Four Freedoms Award for his work on the "Responsibility to Protect", and his contributions to conflict prevention and resolution, arms control and disarmament.
