Jean-Marie Guéhenno (born 30 October 1949 in Paris) is a former French diplomat. He served as the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. Guéhenno was appointed to the position in 2000 and retired in August 2008. He is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the NYU Center on International Cooperation.[1] He currently serves as the Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He also serves as Associate Director of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies at SIPA, and directs the School’s International Conflict Resolution specialization.
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Guéhenno previously served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations from 2000-2008. In that role, he led the largest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the UN, overseeing approximately 130,000 staff on eighteen missions.
Before working at the United Nations, Guéhenno was a member of the Cour des Comptes in Paris. He has also worked in international relations and diplomacy, directing the CAP from 1989 to 1993, chairing the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale from 1998 to 2000 and working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France before he joined the UN.
Guéhenno is a Knight of the Légion d'honneur and Commander of the Bundesverdienstkreuz. He attended the École Normale Supérieure, before going to the École Normale d'Administration. He is married and has one daughter.
Guéhenno has published articles in many newspapers and magazines, including "The Impact of Globalisation on Strategy" in the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Survival, and "Globalisation and the International System" in the Journal of Democracy, as well as articles or chapters in Internationale Politik, Prospect, Paradoxes of European Foreign Policy, and Strategic Analysis. Heis the author of the End of the Nation-State (1993).