Ramesh Chandra Thakur

Ramesh Thakur is an Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Senior Research Fellow, the Toda Peace Institute, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. His last post was Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the ANU. He was formerly Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations). Educated in India (BA Honours, University of Calcutta) and Canada (MA, PhD Queen’s University), he has held full-time academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia and been a consultant to the Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian governments on arms control, disarmament and international security issues. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Governance (2013–18).
*Source: the Crawford School of Public Policy.*


Contributions:
- (with [Hyam Gold](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL673681A/Hyam_Gold)) *Antarctica as a Nuclear-Free Zone* in [Nuclear-Free Zones (1987)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8021100W/)
- *The Treaty of Rarotonga: The South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone* in [Nuclear-Free Zones (1987)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8021100W/)