Michael Keating

"Michael Keating is an Advisor to Inter Mediate and a Senior Consulting Fellow at Chatham House in London. He has extensive experience of working in conflict and post-conflict situations including in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa. Until November 2012, he served as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General and UN Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan.

"Mr. Keating previously served as the Executive Director of the Africa Progress Panel in Geneva, a policy group, chaired by Kofi Annan, promoting good governance in Africa. His earlier career has been divided between assignments with the UN, where he served in Malawi, Gaza/Jerusalem, New York and Afghanistan/Pakistan, and the private sector, including in financial publishing, television, and management and communication consultancy, notably with companies and public sector bodies engaged in conflict prevention, environmental, human rights and development issues."