Julian Harston, Esq

Career: mangr Br Tourist Authy Copenhagen and Vancouver 1965-71; FCO: joined 1971, first sec/consul Hanoi 1973-74, first sec Blantyre 1975-79, first sec Lisbon 1982-84, cnsllr Harare 1984-88, cnsllr UN Geneva 1991-95; political advsr to Special Rep of Sec-Gen for former Yugoslavia 1995, dir UN Liaison Office Belgrade 1996-98, special rep of Sec-Gen and chief of mission Haiti 1998-99, dep special rep of Sec-Gen Bosnia and Herzegovina 1999-2001, dir Asia and ME Div Dept of Peace-Keeping NY 2001-04, dir UN Office Belgrade 2004-07, asst sec-gen UN Sec-Gen for Western Sahara 2007, special rep of Sec-Gen Western Sahara and head of mission Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) 2007-09, rep of Sec-Gen Belgrade 2009, dir Harston Consulting Belgrade 2009, rep UN Sec-Gen Belgrade 2009-10, ret; dir Harston Consulting 2010-

Books and Publications: Responding to Crises: Are Present Policies & Practices the Answer? (2001), The Experience of East Timor (2002), What Makes a Peacekeeping Success Story? (2003), The United Nations as Government: Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo and East Timor (2005), Adapting the UN to the Post-Modern Era - the Case of Haiti (2005), Peacekeeping in 2007-2010, Kosovo and Metohija: Living in the Enclaves (contrib, 2008), Peacekeeping in 2011, Risk Analysis and Intelligence Assessment in Peacekeeping: A Necessity (2009, 2 edn 2010)