Roland Rich

Roland Rich (born 2 May 1951^[1]) is an Australian career diplomat who has been the head of the United Nations Democracy Fund since 2007, and is also Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office for Partnerships.^[2] Rich was Australia's Ambassador to Laos from 1994 to 1997, and founding Director of the Australian National University's Centre for Democratic Institutions from 1998 to 2005. He has also been a research fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and served on the Australian Defence College staff.^[3]

Rich joined Australia's foreign service in 1975 and served in a variety of overseas posts, including Ambassador to Laos (1994 to 1997), before being appointed Assistant Secretary for the International Organisations Branch in Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1997-1998).^[1][4] He was then founding Director of the Australian National University's Centre for Democratic Institutions from 1998 to 2005.^[3] He was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in 2005, and then taught in the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies of the Australian Defence College.^[4]

A lawyer by training, Rich followed a BA in Government/Anthropology from the University of Sydney (1972) with an LLB (1975, University of Sydney) and a Masters in International Law (Australian National University, 1982).^[1] He also holds a PhD from the Australian National University.^[2]

Books

• The UN Role in Promoting Democracy (2004, with Edward Newman), United Nations University Press
• Political Parties in the Pacific Islands (2006, ed with Hambly, L & Morgan, M), Pandanus Books, Canberra.
• Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy (2007), Lynne Rienner Publishers
• Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia – Non-Partisan Chambers in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines (2012), Routledge

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.cdi.anu.edu.au, CV at the Wayback Machine (archived July 19, 2008)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 United Nations Institute for Training and Research, bio
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 foreignminister.gov.au, 12 September 2007, Australian appointed to lead UN Democracy Fund at the Wayback Machine (archived October 26, 2007)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 UN.org, Roland Rich

External links

• Dr Roland Rich, Australian National University
• Rich, Roland (1993). "Recognition of States: The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union". European Journal of International Law 4 (1): 36–65. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
• Roland Rich (2010) Situating the UN Democracy Fund. Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations: October–December 2010, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 423–434.