Edward Luck
Senior Vice President and Director of Studies
luck@ipinst.org
Edward C. Luck is Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the International Peace Institute and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General, in which capacity he primarily focuses on the responsibility to protect. He is currently on public service leave as Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center on International Organization of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Before coming to Columbia in 2001, he was Founder and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of International Organization, a research center jointly established by the School of Law of New York University and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University. From 1995 to 1997, he played a key role in the UN reform process as Senior Consultant to the Department of Administration and Management of the United Nations, as Staff Director of the General Assembly’s Open-ended High-level Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations System, and as an adviser to the President of the General Assembly, Razali Ismail, on his proposals for Security Council reform.
From 1984 to 1994, Dr. Luck served as President and CEO of the United Nations Association of the USA, an organization he served in a number of research and management capacities between 1974 and 1984. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Sciences-Po in Paris, a Senior Consultant to the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, a member of the Secretary-General’s Policy Working Group on the United Nations and Terrorism, and a consultant to numerous private foundations and research centers.
A frequent media commentator and prolific author, Dr. Luck’s most recent books include The UN Security Council: Practice and Promise (Routledge, 2006), International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap, co-edited with Michael W. Doyle (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), and Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999 (Brookings, 1999). He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College with High Distinction in International Relations and a series of graduate degrees from Columbia University, including an M.I.A. from the School of International Affairs, the Certificate of the Russian Institute, and M.A., M.Ph., and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.