Michael W. Doyle is the Director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative and University Professor of Columbia University. He is affiliated with the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Law School. His research interests include international relations theory, international law, international peace-building and the United Nations. His most recent book id the Question of Intervention (Yale University Press, 2015). From 2006 to 2013, Doyle was an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund, a fund established in 2005 by the UN General Assembly to promote grass-roots democratization around the world.  Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser for policy planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has received two career awards from the American Political Science Association for his scholarship and public service and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.  He has an A.B. and Ph.D from Harvard University and an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Warwick (UK). He served as vice president of IPA (IPI’s predecessor) in 1993 and 1994 and as a senior fellow until 1996 when he joined IPI’s board of directors.