Abiodun Williams

Abiodun Williams is Professor of the Practice of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and The Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. He was Director of Strategic Planning for UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon. He served in UN peacekeeping missions in North Macedonia, Haiti, and Bosnia, in senior political and humanitarian roles. He has also taught at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the University of Rochester. He is past Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), and a former member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He is the winner of the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University, and the Constantine E. Maguire Medal from Georgetown University.