President and Chief Executive Officer
David M. Malone was appointed as President of IDRC on July 1st, 2008, for a term of five years. Prior to that, Mr. Malone served as Canada`s High Commissioner to India and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal. Other positions he has held include: Assistant Deputy Minister (Global Issues) in Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade; President, International Peace Academy, New York; and as a Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.
Mr. Malone has published extensively on peace and security issues, in book form and in journals. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of Toronto. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor at the New York University School of Law and is a Senior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. In early 2008, he published The Law and Practice of the United Nations (2008). His most recent monograph, a book addressing contemporary Indian foreign policy, Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy was released by Oxford University Press in 2011. Since then, he co-edited a collective work, Nepal in Transition: From People’s War to Fragile Peace, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012.
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