SAM DAWS UNA-UK Executive Director
	Tel: 020 7766 3457 (Executive Assistant) E-mail: daws (at) una.org.uk Fax: 020 7930 5893
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Biography

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 17 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 the UN Security Council 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. He has co-authored or edited six books on the UN, including 'The Oxford Handbook on the United Nations’ with Tom Weiss, OUP.