Joint guest talk by Greg Quinn / Paul Bentall of FCO: ‘The UNSC in 2011’ and ‘Outlook for UNSC in 2012'

The International Politics Research Group hosted a joint guest talk by Greg Quinn and Paul Bentall of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Bentall presented on ‘The UNSC in 2011’ and then Quinn followed with ‘Outlook for the UNSC in 2012’. They were quite interactive and enjoyed spending time answering questions. The event was held in the West Room, International Politics Building, on Monday 30 January 2012.

 

PAUL BENTALL

Paul joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1993. He works in the Multilateral Research Group, which covers the politics and institutional development of key multilateral organisations (principally the UN, OSCE, and Commonwealth), as well as many of the issues with which they deal (conflict, human rights, sanctions, peacekeeping, mass atrocity prevention).  Paul has remained in the Group ever since, except between 1999 and 2003 when he was posted to the UK Mission to the UN in Geneva, covering the human rights and humanitarian portfolios.  In 2008 and 2009 he also did short-term attachments to the UK Mission to the UN in New York, heading the teams dealing in the UN Security Council with counter-terrorism and the Middle East.

 

GREG QUINN

Greg joined the FCO in 1995 as a Historian, moving to the Baltic States desk in 1998.  He has served in Ghana (2000–03) and as Deputy Head of Mission in Belarus (2004-07). His most recent overseas trip was to Washington as secondee in the US Department of State, working on Iraq. He has headed-up the UN Political Team in the FCO International Organisations Department since 2009.  He has just been appointed as Deputy Head of Mission in Kazakhstan and will be starting work there in September. Greg holds a BSc (Econ) in International Politics and International History from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth (awarded in 1992!) and a MA in History from the Open University.