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David M. Malone, born in 1954, is a Canadian scholar-diplomat, a frequent author on international security and development, and a former Canadian High Commissioner and Ambassador. He was appointed President of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in July 2008.

His most recent book is The Law and Practice of the United Nations. Earlier he had written on the political economy of civil wars, on the causes of violent conflict and conflict prevention and on Haiti. As a practitioner, Malone worked on Middle East issues and later focused on international economic relations, eventually becoming a G-8 negotiator for Canada. He was President of the International Peace Academy, an independent research and policy development institution in New York, 1998-2004. During these years, he contributed columns frequently to the international media, notably to the International Herald Tribune and the Globe & Mail. He served as a Canadian Ambassador to the UN, 1992-94, after representing Canada on the UN's Economic and Social Council, 1990-92. He later served as Canada's High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal, 2006-2008.

His next book, due out in 2011 from Oxford University Press, will offer a survey of contemporary Indian foreign policy. With Sebastian von Einsiedel and Suman Pradhan he is also preparing a volume on Nepal's recent and current governance challenges.

His co-authors have included Mats Berdal, Fen Osler Hampson, Yuen Foong Khong, Simon Chesterman, Karin Wermester, Charles Cater, Lotta Hagman, Heiko Nitzschke, James Cockayne, Sebastian von Einsiedel, Maciej Hawrylak and Ramesh Thakur. He has taught at the University of Toronto, at Columbia University, at the New York University School of Law and at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. Since 2009, he is again an Adjunct Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

He lectures frequently on international development and security issues and on India and its foreign policy.

Books

• The Law and Practice of the United Nations, co-authored by Simon Chesterman and Thomas M. Franck (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Preventing a Future Generation of Conflict in Iraq, co-edited by Markus Bouillon and Ben Rowswell (Lynne Rienner, 2007).
• The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980-2005 (Oxford University Press, 2006)
• The UN Security Council From Cold War to Twenty-First Century (Lynne Rienner, 2004)
• Unilateralism and US Foreign Policy" co-edited by Yuen Foong Khong (Lynne Rienner, 2002)
• From Reaction to Conflict Prevention, co-edited by Fen Osler Hampson (Lynne Rienner, 2002)
• Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars, co-edited by Mats Berdal, (Lynne Rienner, 2000)
• Decision-Making in The UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti (Oxford University Press, 1999)

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