Ramesh Thakur FAIIA, a Former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, is emeritus professor of the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. He is Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and co-convener of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament.

Ramesh is the author of The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect.

In 2017, Ramesh Thakur was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.