| | As Director of Research at IPI, Francesco Mancini serves as principal liaison between the program staff and the office of the President Terje Rød-Larsen. He helps to connect the different program agendas with institutional priorities. He also heads the larger IPI program "Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change" and directs IPI work on peace operations. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University s School of International and Public Affairs, and held the same position for two years at New York University. Since 2004, he has been teaching a graduate-level seminar on conflict assessment. |
| | Prior to joining IPI, Francesco served as an Associate at the EastWest Institute in New York, where he co-managed the Worldwide Security Initiative, a program designed to enhance international cooperation in addressing new security threats, particularly transnational terrorism. From 1996 to 2001, Francesco was a senior management consultant at Charles Riley Consultants International in Paris, where he focused on business strategy and change management, managing multi-million dollar reforms in major public sector companies in France, Italy, and Morocco. |
| | He earned his BS in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University´s School of International and Public Affairs where he studied International Security Policy and Conflict Resolution. While at Columbia, he was awarded a fellowship within the Satzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. In 2002, he researched the peace negotiations in Cyprus at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia |
| 1977 | Law Studies in Vienna (Dr. iur.) |
| 1977-1978 | Postgraduate-Studies, College of Europe, Bruges |
| 1978 | Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague |
| 1979 | Joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service |
| 1982-1986 | Austrian Mission to the European Communities, Brussels |
| 1986-1990 | Austrian Embassy, Moscow |
| 1991-1993 | Private Office of the Austrian Foreign Minister, Vienna |
| 1993-1995 | Deputy Head of Cabinet of Foreign Ministers Mock and Schüssel, Vienna |
| 1995-1999 | Director for Security Policy and Policy Planning, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1996-1999 | Deputy Political Director, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 1999-2003 | Ambassador of Austria to Belgium and Head of the Austrian Mission to NATO, Brussels |
| 2002-2004 | Special Representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister for the Western Balkans |
| 2003-2004 | Representative of the Federal Chancellor of Austria in the Commission on the Reform of the Austrian Armed Forces, Vienna |
| 2003-2008 | Political Director (Director General for Political Affairs) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Vienna |
| 2008-2011 | Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations, New York |
| 2009-2010 | Also represented Austria on the United Nations Security Council, New York (President of the Security Council in November 2009) |
| 2011 | Vice-President of the 66th General Assembly of the UN, New York |
| 2011-2015 | Ambassador, (Head of the Delegation) of the European Union to the United Nations, New York |
| since 2015 | Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service, Brussels |
| | Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges and Natolin |
| | Terje Rød-Larsen has been President of the International Peace Institute since January 2005. He serves concurrently as the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559 (2004). He began his career as an academic, teaching sociology, political science, and philosophy at the Universities of Bergen and Oslo, before establishing the Fafo Institute for Applied Sciences in Oslo in 1981. As Director of Fafo, he initiated a research project into the living conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which led to a request by the PLO in 1992 that he help establish a secret channel for negotiations between the PLO and the Government of Israel. The subsequent talks between Israelis and Palestinians concluded with the Oslo Accords and the signing of the Declaration of Principles at the White House on September 13, 1993. |
| | In 1993, he was appointed Ambassador and Special Adviser for the Middle East Peace process to the Norwegian Foreign Minister. In mid-1994, he was appointed United Nations Special Coordinator in the Occupied Territories at the rank of Under-Secretary-General. In 1996, he became Norwegian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Planning and Cooperation, before re-joining the United Nations. From 1999 to December 2004, he served as UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority, holding the rank of Under-Secretary-General |
| 1969-1975 | FU - Freie Universität Berlin |
| 1971-1972 | LSE - London School of Economics, London, UK |
| 1977-1978 | ENA - Ecole Nationale de Administration, Paris, France |
| 1975-1976 | DIE - German Institute for Development |
| 1978-1980 | Junior Professional Officer, United Nations Development Programme, New York, USA |
| 1980-1982 | Programme Officer, United Nations Development Programme, Port-au-Price, Haiti |
| 1983-1987 | Assistant Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan |
| 1987-1989 | Deputy Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran |
| 1988 | Special Mission through Afghanistan "SALAM 3" , United Nations |
| 1989-1991 | Chief of Mission, Operation Salaam, Kabul, Afghanistan |
| 1991-1992 | Special assignments for the Special Humanitarian Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Kuwait - Iraq conflict |
| 1992-1999 | United Nations Resident Coordinator, United Nations Development Programme, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran |
| 1995-1998 | Special missions in support of 6+2 Talks |
| 1998 | Special mission to Talibn-held Kandahar |
| 1999-2000 | Director for Operations and Analysis, UNODC - United Nations Drug Control Programme, Vienna, Austria |
| 2001-2002 | Special mission in support of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan |
| 2001-2005 | Director for Management and Finance, OSCE |
| 2003-2005 | Support to Martti Ahtisari’s ICT Initiative |
| 2005 | Special Mission to Somalia |
| 2005-2007 | Principle Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for Political Affairs to Iraq |
| 2008 | Special mission to Afghanistan, ASG |
| Assistant Secretary General, Department for Political Affairs, New York, USA |
| 2008-2012 | Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| since 2012 | Retired from the UN, various teaching engagements, published five papers on peacebuilding |
