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March 1, 8:30pm Alumnae Lounge
Gareth Evans is President and Chief Executive of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) positions he assumed in January 2000. He was also appointed, in September 2000, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. In January 2001, he received the Order of Australia. In 1999, he resigned from the Australian Parliament, after 21 years of service. He was the longest serving parliamentary member of the Australian Labor Party, first entering the Senate in 1978 and transferring to the House of Representatives in 1996. Gareth Evans served as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments in the posts of Attorney-General (1983-4), Minister for Resources and Energy (1984-7), Minister for Transport and Communications (1987-8) and Foreign Minister (1988- 96). He is best known internationally as Foreign Minister for his role in founding APEC in 1989, for developing the UN Peace Plan for Cambodia, for bringing to a conclusion the international Chemical Weapons Convention, for initiating the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, and for his 1993 book on UN Reform: Cooperating for Peace .
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