Gareth Evans

Energy Security Or National Security

Professor Evans is the chancellor of the Australian National University, professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne, and president emeritus of the International Crisis Group. Previously, he was a cabinet minister for thirteen years, and served as attorney general (1983-4), minister for Resources and Energy (1984-7), minister for Transport and Communications (1987-8) and foreign minister (1988-96). He has written or edited nine books – including Cooperating for Peace (1993), Australia’s Foreign Relations (1995), and The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (2008) – and has published over 100 journal articles and chapters on foreign relations, human rights and legal and constitutional reform. He has co-chaired two major International Commissions, on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01), and Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (2008-10). In December 2011 Foreign Policy magazine cited him as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2011. He received a B.A and LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and an M.A. from Oxford University.