Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan
Michael Charles Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan, Neath Port Talbot of Glamorgan ( born June 11, 1949) is a former British diplomat and politician of the Labour Party, the several diplomatic positions in the United Nations ( UN) perceived and since 2010 a member of the House of Lords, where he now belongs to the group of non-party peers ( Cross Bencher ).
Life
Diplomat and climb to the UN Under-Secretary General
After schooling Williams began studies in International Relations at University College London ( UCL), which he finished in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. International Relations ). He then completed a degree in development aid at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), University of London and graduated in 1973 with a Master of Science (M.Sc. Politics of Development Studies ). A subsequent post-graduate studies in political science at SOAS, he finished with a doctorate in politics.
He then joined the Foreign Service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In the early 1990s, he took over for uses of the British Foreign Office and in foreign missions increasingly senior positions within the United Nations. First, he was between 1992 and 1993 Director of the UN for Human Rights in Cambodia and then Director of the Information Department of the UN Protection Force ( United Nations Protection Force) in Croatia before it from 1995 to 1998 as a senior fellow at the think tank International Institute for Strategic Studies ( IISS ) worked.
Upon completion of this activity Williams from 1999 to 2000 Director of the UN Office for Children and Armed Conflict in New York City and was followed between 2000 and 2005 special adviser to the then British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and Jack Straw.
In 2005 he returned to the headquarters of the UN back to New York City and was there until 2006 Director for the Middle East and Asia and then Special Coordinator of the UN in the Middle East before he was between 2007 and 2008 special representative of Britain 's Middle East and Special Projects. After that he was since August 2008 UN Special Coordinator in the UN Secretariat for Lebanon to succeed Johan Verbeke.
House of Lords member
On 23 July 2010, he was raised by a Letters Patent as a life peer with the title Baron Williams of Baglan, Neath Port Talbot, Glamorgan of the nobility. On 18 October 2010 was his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords, where he was then cropped for a year between October 2010 and October 2011 by a so-called leave of absence from attending the meetings of the House of Lords.
In December 2011 he left the Group of the Labour Party after he was previously appointed as a Trustee of the BBC Trust. Since then, he belongs to the group of non-party peers, the so-called Cross Bencher.
He is also a Visiting Fellow at Chatham House resident of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Peace Center in Toledo.
Publications
- Communism, Religion and Revolt in Banten (1990 )
- Civil - Military Relations and Peacekeeping ( 1998)