Youssef MahmoudDr. Youssef Mahmoud is Senior Adviser at the International Peace Institute (IPI) and a Visiting Professor at the African Leadership Centre at King's College London. Before retiring from the United Nations in January 2011, he was the Secretary-eneral's Special Representative and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT). From 2007 to 2009 he served as Executive Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Burundi (BINUB).

Prior to these assignments, he held several other UN senior positions, notably as United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guyana, Director in the UN Department of Political Affairs, and Head of the Office of the Undersecretary-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. In 2015, he served as member of the UN Secretary-General High Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations and simultaneously a member of the High Level Advisory Group for the Global Study on Security Council Resoultion 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. Read More Read Less