The Honourable Gareth Evans, AO, QC

Gareth Evans is Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, an independent global conflict prevention organisation of which he was President and Chief Executive Officer from 2000-2009. He is currently Chancellor of the Australian National University, an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne.

Prof. Evans previously spent 21 years in Australian politics, thirteen of them as a Cabinet Minister. As one of Australia's longest serving Foreign Ministers (1988-1996), he is best known for his roles in initiating the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia. He also played a significant role in concluding the Chemical Weapons Convention and in the founding of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. Prof. Evans was Co-Chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), which produced the report, The Responsibility to Protect, and a member of The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission.

Prof. Evans is a Principal Signatory of Global Zero.