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Michael Gaouette
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
mg3162@columbia.edu
Biography:
Michael Gaouette has 20 years of United Nations and international NGO experience. He has served the UN in New York, Geneva, West Africa and the Middle East in a variety of roles, including as the leader of the team that established a peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan.
He was also the Director of Emergency Operations at a major British NGO, where he led humanitarian responses to crises around the world, including in India, East Africa and Central Asia. His commentary includes: A Case for Change – A Review of Peace Operations (contributor), “Ignoring Sudan?” (Al Jazeera), “Peacekeeping in Darfur” (NPR), and “Peacekeeping – can the UN meet the challenge?” (Harvard Institute of Politics).
Gaouette is also the first chairman of Digital Democracy, a start-up NGO that uses ubiquitous technologies to empower marginalized communities in low-income countries.
He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an MPhil from Cambridge University.