Jean Arnault is a French diplomat who currently serves as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' Personal Envoy on Afghanistan and Regional Issues.
From November 2014 to June 2015 Arnault was a member of the Independent High-Level Panel on Peace Operations appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and chaired by José Ramos-Horta[3] to review and make recommendations on UN field operations in the areas of prevention, mediation, peacebuilding and peacekeeping.
Arnault subsequently was the UN Secretary-General's Delegate to the Sub-Commission on End of Conflict issues in the Colombia Peace Talks, in which he served from August 2015 to April 2016.
At the end of December 2018 he had completed his assignment as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, established by the Security Council in July 2017 to verify the reintegration of former combatants from the FARC-EP and the security guarantees for communities in the conflict areas.
[4] In 2001, Arnault was a visiting fellow at the Centre for International Studies at Princeton University where he focused on lessons for mediators from peace processes in the 90s.