David Malone is bilingual in French and in English and passed the French exam Baccalauréat in Ecole Saint Martin in Pontoise.He holds a degree from l’École des Hautes Études Commerciales ; studied at the American University in Cairo; holds an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; and earned a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford University.
Career
Diplomatic career
Malone served as a Canadian Ambassador to the UN from 1992 to 1994, after representing Canada on the UN's Economic and Social Council, 1990-92. He was appointed as the Canadian High Commissioner to India, and the non-resident Ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan, 2006-2008.
Malone was president of the International Development Research Centre, a Canadian crown corporation that supports evidence-based and policy relevant research into healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies in the global south, 2008-2013, and became president in July 2008.
Malone has a long-term interest in Haiti, which he visited as part of UN delegations and as a representative of human rights groups. His book Decision-Making in the UN Security Council: The Case of Haiti is "an account of the struggle to address the Haiti crisis from 1990 to 1998." A former supporter of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, he was highly critical of the international pressure that resulted in Aristide's ousting, singling out the United States, France, and Canada in a 2004 op-ed piece published in the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, he expressed mixed optimism that a lengthy international involvement might bring about positive change, but lamented the lack of interest in "Paris, Washington, or even Ottawa" in a long-term strategy. In an op-ed piece in The New York Times written with Kirsti Samuels published in July 2004, he advocated an international commitment to long-term nation-building for Haiti. Malone has written a survey of Indian Foreign policy published in 2012, and co-edited, with C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan a wide-ranging collection of essays for Oxford University Press on the same topic primarily by Indian authors, including many young ones. He is one of the foreign scholars most often cited on India's international relations.
United Nations University
Malone was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as Rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo on 3 October 2012. He took up this position on 1 March 2013.
Authorship
Malone has written a number of books, many of them concerned with the United Nations, international development, international security and Indian foreign policy. He frequently published academic chapters and articles in scholarly volumes and journals. As well, he writes regularly for the Literary Review of Canada. Earlier he had written on the political economy of civil wars, on the causes of violent conflict and conflict prevention, on Security Council decision-making, on Haiti and on Iraq. Malone's The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005 was nominated for the 2006-2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, an award given annually to the best book on international affairs.
Books authored and edited
" The Law and Practice of the UN",2nd Ed., co-authored with Simon Chesterman and Ian Jonhstone
" The Oxford Handbook on Indian Foreign Policy", co-edited with C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan
" The UN Security Council in the 21st Century", co-edited with Sebastian von Einsiedel and Bruno Stagno Ugarte,
International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects, co-edited with Bruce Currie-Alder, Ravi Kanbur and Rohinton Medhora
Nepal in Transition: From Civil War to Fragile Peace, co-edited with Sebastian von Einsiedel and Suman Pradhan
Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy
The Law and Practice of the United Nations, co-authored by Simon Chesterman and Thomas M. Franck
Preventing a Future Generation of Conflict in Iraq, co-edited by Markus Bouillon and Ben Rowswell
The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council, 1980-2005
The UN Security Council From Cold War to Twenty-First Century
