Professor the Hon Gareth Evans is Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow at The Australian National University. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Australian Labor Governments for thirteen years, including as Foreign Minister (1988–96) when he initiated the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. After leaving Australian politics, he was President of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009, a member of the Blix Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Zedillo Commission on the Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond, co-chaired with Yoriko Kawaguchi the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (2009), and was Convenor of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) from 2011-15. He was awarded the 2010 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Freedom from Fear Award for his pioneering work on the responsibility to protect concept and his contributions to conflict prevention, arms control and disarmament. He has written or edited, solely or jointly, twelve books, including Cooperating for Peace (Allen & Unwin, 1993), The Responsibility to Protect (Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 2009) and Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play (ANU, 2013 and 2015) and has published over 100 chapters and refereed journal articles.