Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud
Director, New York Office, United Nations University

Dr. Jean-Marc Coicaud heads the UNU Office at the United Nations in New York. Dr. Coicaud was Senior Academic Officer in the Peace and Governance Programme at UNU in Tokyo from 1996 to 2003. Before joining UNU, he served in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General as a speechwriter for Dr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992-1996). A former fellow at Harvard University (Center for International Affairs, Department of Philosophy and Harvard Law School from 1986 to 1992), Dr. Coicaud has held appointments such as Cultural Attaché with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legislative Aide with the European Parliament (Financial Committee), Associate Professor at the University of Paris, and Visiting Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has also taught at the New School for Social Research (New York) and at Keio University (Tokyo). He has been a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (Washington, D.C.), and a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law. Dr. Coicaud holds a Ph.D. in political science-law from the Sorbonne and a Doctorat d'Etat in Philosophy from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris. In addition, Dr. Coicaud holds under graduate and graduate degrees in literature and linguistics.

He is the author of L’introuvable démocratie autoritaire (L’Harmattan, 1996), Politics and Legitimacy. Contribution to the Study of Political Right and Responsibility (Cambridge University Press, 2002) (also available in French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic). He co-authored (with Charles A. Kupchan, Emmanuel Adler, and Yuen Foong Khong) Power in Transition: The Peaceful Change of International Order (United Nations University Press, 2001). He co-edited, with Daniel Warner, Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits (UNU Press, 2001), with Veijo Heiskanen, The Legitimacy of International Organizations (UNU Press, 2001), and with Michael W. Doyle and Anne-Marie Gardner, The Globalization of Human Rights (UNU Press, 2003). In 2005 he will publish Beyond the National Interest (United States Institute of Peace Press), and, in Japanese, The Politics of International Solidarity (Fujiwara Shoten).

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