Michael Keating (born 1959)[1] is the executive director of the European Institute of Peace,[2] an independent conflict resolution organisation based in Brussels, with activities in fifteen countries in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America.
[citation needed] Keating began his international career as Special Assistant to Sadruddin Aga Khan in Geneva 1985, working on diverse issues including nuclear nonproliferation, refugees and displacement, UN reform, environmental protection, and religious tolerance.
After field assignments in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he was Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Mark Malloch Brown in New York from 1999 until 2001.
[citation needed] From 2008 to 2010, Keating served as the Executive Director of the Africa Progress Panel,[6] a policy group chaired by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Returning to the United Nations, Keating was the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (under the leadership of Staffan de Mistura and subsequently Ján Kubiš)[7] and the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012,[8] and later headed the UN team that developed the "Human Rights Up Front" plan of action (2012/13).