Andy Knight

Dr. W. Andy Knight is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Professor of International Relations at the University of Alberta. He serves as Advisory Board Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Welfare of Children. Until recently, he was Director of the Peace and Post Conflict Studies Certificate Programme in the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies (OIS).

Dr. W. Andy Knight In March 2007, Dr. Knight was appointed by the Canadian Foreign Minister to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and serves on the Executive of that body. He co-edited the international journal, Global Governance, from 2000 to 2005, was Vice Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS), the Canadian Consortium for Peace Studies (CCPS), and the Education for Peace Academic and Research Council (EPARC).

Professor Knight has written and edited several books, book chapters and journal articles on various aspects of multilateralism, global governance and peace, and United Nations reform. His most recent books are: Global Politics: Emerging Networks, Trends and Challenges (with Tom Keating) – Oxford University Press, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Leadership (with Joseph Masciulli & Mikhail A. Molchanov) – Ashgate Publishers, Adapting the United Nations to a Postmodern Era: Lessons Learned – Palgrave/Macmillan publishers, A Changing United Nations – Palgrave Macmillan publishers, and Building Sustainable Peace (with Tom Keating) – United Nations University Press and the University of Alberta Press.

On 24 April 2010, Dr. Knight was awarded the National Harry Jerome Trailblazer Award in Toronto.