The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council

Manuel Fröhlich holds the Chair of International Relations and Foreign Policy at Trier University. He has published several books and articles on a range of issues from the United Nations and global governance to the political philosophy of international relations and the role of individuals in world politics as well as the transformation of sovereignty, the responsibility to protect, and peacekeeping. Fröhlich is an elected board member of the German Society for Political Science and co-editor of the German Journal of Political Science ( Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft). Prof. Fröhlich is a fellow of the NRW School of Governance, John W. Holmes Memorial Lecturer of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, recipient of the presidential teaching award of Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena and member of the program committee of the Edelstam Institute. Abiodun Williams served as the Founding President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice from 2013 to 2016. From 2008 to 2012 he served at the United States Institute of Peace first as Vice President of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, and later as Senior Vice President of the Center for Conflict Management. From 2001 to 2007 Dr. Williams was Director of Strategic Planning for United Nations Secretaries-General Ban Ki-Moon and Kofi Annan in New York. He held faculty appointments at Georgetown, Rochester, and Tufts universities. Dr. Williams is the past Chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS). He has published widely on conflict prevention and management.