Sam Daws is the Executive Director of the United Nations Association of the UK. From June 2000 to June 2003 he served as First Officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. A senior policy adviser on UN issues for more than 19 years, Sam spent six years as co-director of a Geneva-based international consultancy, having previously served as the inaugural head of the UNA-UK UN and Conflict Programme. He has also served on working attachment to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Research Analysts), as a parliamentary researcher at the House of Commons, and as Programme Assistant to the Quaker UN Office in Geneva. Sam has degrees in Social Anthropology and International Conflict Analysis and undertook doctoral studies on UN Security Council reform at New College, Oxford. He has been a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of Cambridge University and at the UN Studies Programme of Yale University. Sam has been interviewed frequently on television and radio and has lectured at Oxford University (PPE), UCL (UN law) and the UN University in Tokyo. He has co-authored or edited six books on the UN, including 'The Procedure of the UN Security Council' and 'The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations’ (both published by Oxford University Press). He is an alumnus of the UN’s International Leadership Academy in Amman, Jordan, of the London Business School and of the Top Management Programme of the National School of Government.