Current Officers
Crisis Group is chaired by former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Thomas R. Pickering and co-chaired by Ayo Obe and Ghassan Salamé.
Its President and Chief Executive from January 2000 was former Foreign Minister of Australia, Gareth Evans. In July 2009 he was succeeded by Louise Arbour, formerly the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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