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Current Positions
Director and Senior Research Associate, Royal United Services Institute – Futures Project – programme designed to help decision-makers and policy planners deal with a broad range of ever more complex and uncertain security issues, including humanitarian crises.

Visiting Professor, African Leadership Centre, King’s College, London – focusing on the project, An Emerging African Paradigm, designed to assess how transformative technologies might affect governance throughout the African continent.

Director, Humanitarian Futures – a web-based version of the Humanitarian Futures Programme, that offers a Humanitarian Futures Toolkit to enhance humanitarian operational capacities as well as key studies about strategic planning, innovation and collaboration for those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities.

Chair, The Humanitarian Passport Initiative – guiding a combination of international non-governmental organisations and private sector institutions to promote training for individuals and organisations interested in enhancing humanitarian response capacities.

2004 to 2017
2004-2015       Director, the Humanitarian Futures Programme, King’s College, London – brought together a wide range of multilateral, bilateral and non-governmental organizations to work to develop means to strengthen strategic and planning capacities for dealing with longer-term humanitarian threats.

2015 -- present          Honorary President, The START Network – Represented 47 major

International NGOs, committed to rapid, joint and integrated

response to humanitarian crises

2015-- 2016               Chairman, Europe and Other Groups, World Humanitarian Summit

                                 preparations – Chaired meetings and drafted inputs that would form

part of the WHS’s preparatory finings

2014 – 2016              Member, Strategic policy review group for Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2014 – 2016             Member, American Red Cross, Global Disaster Preparedness Center – forum intended to provide policy

advice to ARC’s Board of Directors

2014 – 2015              Member, Programme and Policy Committee, CARE International UK - forum intended to provide policy

advice to CARE’s Board of Directors

2014 – 2015              Member, DHL Deutsche Post Sustainability Advisory Council –

provided advice on ways that a private sector organisation

can use its capacities to have effective humanitarian impact

2014 – present          Member, Advisory Panel of Experts, Future Humanitarian Financing Initiative – UK government promoted initiative to

foster humanitarian innovation and innovative practices

2014                           Consultant to the World Food Programme, re: Disaster Risk Management for UNISDR’s Global Assessment Report

2012 – 2015              Member, Humanitarian Innovation Panel, Deloitte – Provided

advice on the ways that corporate assets could be used to promote

humanitarian prevention and preparedness

2010 – present          Member, British Red Cross, Research Advisory Committee

2008 – 2015              Advisory Board, Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute -

2013 – 2014               Member Board of Trustees, Internews – organisation intended

to promote effective communications globally to focus on

2011—2014               Member of Humanitarian Innovation Fund Board as well as Grants Panel

2010 – 2011                Member of Reference Group, Evaluation of SIDA’s Humanitarian Assistance

2010 – 2011                Member, Humanitarian Response Review Senior Advisory Board – Board established by the UK Secretary

of State, Department of International Development to

reflect on the challenges of the past as one step towards

preparing for the future

2009 – 2013                Member, ELRHA [Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance] – Intended to demonstrate ways

to link academic disciplines with humanitarian activities

2008 – 2013               Advisory Board member, ALNAP [Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance]

2008                            Consultant to UNOCHA on a review of UN Humanitarian Coordinator Models

2005 – 2014               Trustee, Merlin – an international medical-based NGO that

eventually was incorporated into Save the Children - UK

2005                           Consultant to UNIDIR on SALW/ERW and Humanitarian

                                  Assistance, for the European Parliament

2004-05                       Consultant to the Swiss Government, CEST, on a marketing and funding strategy for the Swiss-based Humanitarian                                        Dialogue Centre

2004-05                     Joint Senior Researcher, UNDPKO, UNOCHA, UNDP study on UN Integrated Missions

2004                           Lead consultant, UNDP/UNOCHA/International Strategy for Disaster Reduction to prepare UN Action Plan on natural hazard reduction at the Kobe Conference, January 2005

2004                           Lead consultant, Department for International Development [DFID], An Independent Evaluation of the Humanitarian                                 Dialogue Centre

Previous – 1987 to 2002
1999-2002       UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia/United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative for Somalia/UN Designated Official for Security for Somalia

1999                UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Kosovo. From the UN’s entry into Kosovo in June 1999 to the end of August, served as UN Humanitarian Coordinator prior to assuming assignment in Somalia. During this period, responsible for creation of Humanitarian Information Centre and development of protocol between military authorities [UNMIK] and humanitarian community.

1995-1996       Special Advisor to the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, New York. Prepared policy papers on inter-related aspects of relief, post-conflict recovery and development. In this assignment, worked closely with UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations and Department of Political Affairs as well as with the World Bank and the UN's Consultative Committee on Operational and Programme Questions.

1994-1995       United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda. Responsible for coordinating United Nations humanitarian and post-conflict recovery operations and for liaising closely with the extensive NGO community. During this period, created the Integrated Operations Centre [IOC] and the Integrated Regional Information Network [IRIN]. In parallel, served in late 1995 as the Special Advisor on Prison Issues for the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Rwanda.

1992-1994       Coordinator, Inter-Agency Support Unit, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland. Beginning in 1992, transformed vague concept known as the "Inter-Agency Support Unit" [IASU] into a functioning and action-oriented reality. Initially without staff or resources, I developed the goals and objectives, the structure and procedures and mobilised virtually all the resources required to maintain a unit consisting of 28 people. IASU's objective was to promote inter-agency operational cooperation directly and through the mechanism of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee and its Working Group.

1991-1992       Deputy to the Coordinator, United Nations Special Emergency Programme for the Horn of Africa [SEPHA], New York. Recalled from the Sudan to assist in creating a special coordinating unit to respond to the emergency requirements in the Horn of Africa after the collapse of Ethiopia's Marxist regime in mid-1991. Key SEPHA activity was to ensure coherent and coordinated inter-agency response to emerging complex emergencies throughout the six countries of the Horn.

1990-1991       Chief, UN Emergency Unit in the Sudan, Khartoum, Sudan. Developed mixed national and international team to plan and monitor inter-agency relief activities principally for displaced and drought-affected persons in Sudan's "transitional zone" and northern and western regions. Considerable energy devoted to technical negotiations with the Government of Sudan on "Operation Lifeline Sudan".

1987-1990       Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, United Nations Prevention and Preparedness Group, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Seconded to the United Nations Development Programme in 1988 to assist the Ethiopian government to devise measures [1] for a National Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Strategy and [2] for moving from disaster prevention and preparedness to development. Also undertook an evaluation of the effectiveness of the United Nations Emergency Operations in Ethiopia from 1986-1988 for UNDP.

Publications
Books:

Anatomy of Disaster Relief: The International Network in

           Action [Frances Pinter Publishers; London - 1987]

The Study and Teaching of International Relations: A

           Perspective on Mid-Career Education [Frances Pinter Publishers; London - 1979] Co-editor and major contributor

Book chapters:

          

Randolph Kent and Sam Carpenter, “The military, the private sector and traditional humanitarian actors: Interaction, interoperability and effectiveness”, in Zeynep Sezgin and Dennis Dizkzeul, The New Humanitarians: Principles and Practice, Routledge, 2016

Randolph Kent and Charlotte Crabtree, ‘The Military and the Humanitarian Capacities Challenge: New Dimensions of Partnerships in a Fragile World, in Pauline Eadie and Wyn Rees et al, Military Transformation in the West and Asia: Security Policy in the Post-Cold War era, Routledge – 2016

Randolph Kent, “Media Futures and Humanitarian Perspectives in an age of uncertainty and complexity”, in Simon Cottle and Glenda Cooper, Humanitarian perspectives in an age of uncertainty and complexity, Peter Lang Publishing, 2015

Randolph Kent and Sophie Evans, “The past is not the future: Transformation agendas and traditional humanitarian actors”, in Roger MacGinty and Jenny Peterson, The Companion to Humanitarian Action, Routledge, 2015

Randolph Kent, ‘Positive and Negative Noise in Humanitarian Action: The OSINT Dimension’ in Christopher Hobbs et al, Open Source Intelligence in the 21st Century: New Approaches and Opportunities, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Special publications:

Responding to Catastrophes: US innovation in a vulnerable world, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, March 2008

Global Development and Human Security: Towards a Policy Agenda, Special Working Paper Series, Taylor and Francis Publishers, London, London, 2007

UNESCO’s Future: Global challenges and institutional response, UNESCO, Paris, 2006

Humanitarian Futures: Practical Policy Perspectives [HPG, Overseas Development Institute, London, #46, April 2004]

Articles:

“The Future of Warfare: Are we ready?”, International Review of the Red Cross - forthcoming

“Planning from the future: an emerging agenda,” International Review of the Red Cross, Vol 93 #884 December 2012, pp 939ff

“Lessons-learned: The benefits and limits of e-learning in humanitarian education,” Humanitarian Studies/Etudes Humanitaires, The University of Geneva, 2010

“Operational challenges faced by international organizations: Reflections on the proposed international disaster response laws, rules and principles”, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva, May 2006, http:www.ifrc.rc

“Worried but not doing enough,” The World Today, London, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Vol.61, No.12, December 2005

“The Future and the Adaptive Humanitarian Organisation,” Le Banquet: Revue du CERAP, #22, Paris, September 2005

“Assistance, protection and governance networks in complex emergencies,” Lautze, S. et al, The Lancet, 11 December 2004, vol.364

“International Humanitarian Crises: Two decades before and two decades      beyond,” International Affairs, October 2004

“The United Nations Humanitarian Pillar: Refocusing the UN’s Disaster and Emergency Roles and Responsibilities,” Disasters, Vol.28/2, June 2004

“The UN and the Rwanda Genocide: could it ever happen again?”, Humanitarian Policy Group Special Edition, Overseas Development Institute, Humanitarian Exchange #26, March 2004

“Humanitarian Challenges in the Future,” in The Humanitarian Decade, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance, UN, New York, Vol.2, 2004

“Multilateralism and the Imperium: In the wake of events in Baghdad,” The World Today, London, Royal Institute of International Affairs, September 2003

“Humanitarian Dilemmas in Peace and War,” Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, London, December 2003

“Humanitarian Futures and Maladaptive Behaviour”, Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, London, December 2002

“Africa’s New Political Environment”, The World Today [Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, February 1999]

“After the War Lords: Conflict and Governance in the 21st Century” [with John Mackinlay], Conflict Prevention Network Yearbook [European Union Analysis and Evaluation Centre, Brussels, 1999]

“Water, Wars and Future Humanitarian Crises”, in Forum, an annual publication of the International Committee of the Red Cross, December 1998

“Back to Basics: The Future Humanitarian Agenda” in J. Tessitore & S. Woolfson [eds], A Global Agenda: Issues/53, United Nations Association of the US, Rowman & Littlefield, Oxford, September 1998

“Disasters in the Twenty-first Century: The Factors Shaping Humanitarian Crises of the Future”, Humanitarian Affairs Review #2, Summer 1998, Forum Europe, Brussels

“Footing the Aid Bill”, Red Cross, Red Crescent, the magazine of the Red Cross Movement, Issue #2, 1998

"Rwanda's Internally Displaced: A Conundrum within a
Conundrum" [jointly with Larry Minear] in Deng, F & R. Cohen,

The Forsaken People: Case Studies of the Internally Displaced [Brookings Institute, Washington, DC, 1998]

"A New Approach to Complex Emergencies" [with John Mackinlay], International Peacekeeping: A Quarterly Review [Frank Cass Journals, Ilford – Vol.4, Winter 1997]

"United Nations Humanitarian Reform: Preventing crises becoming disasters", [with John Mackinlay], The World Today [Royal Institute of International Affairs, Vol.53 #7, July 1997]

"Complex Emergencies Doctrine: The British Are Still the Best", [with John Mackinlay], Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies [April 1997; London]

"International Responses to Complex Emergencies: Why a New Approach is Needed", [with John Mackinlay]  NATO Review [Vol.45 #3, May-June 1997]

"The Integrated Operations Centre in Rwanda: Coping with Complexity", in Pocock, D. & Whitman, J., After Rwanda:

The Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance [Macmillan;London - 1996]

"Old Concepts and New Approaches: Three Stages of Positive Prevention", [paper written for Peter Hansen, then UN USG/DHA, for inclusion in edited work by Carghill on preventive diplomacy]

"Rwanda: the Aid Impasse", DHA News [United Nations DHA; Geneva/NY - May-June 1995] =

"Humanitarian Assistance and Inter-Agency Coordination and Cooperation: Constraints and Prospects in an African Context", International Journal of Refugee Law Special Issue [Oxford University Press; Oxford - 1995]

"Emergency Aid: Politics and Priorities", in

Loescher, G. and L. Monahan [eds], Refugees and International Relations [Oxford University Press; Oxford - 1989]

"Food, famine and future prospects for Africa", Third World Quarterly, Vol.#1, January 1988

"The United Nations: A Suitable Place for Disasters?", in

Taylor, P & Groom, A.J.R. [eds], International Institutions at Work [Frances Pinter Publishers; London - 1987]

"Reflecting Upon A Decade of Disasters: The Evolving

Response of the International Community", International Affairs, October 1983 [Oxford University Press; Oxford]

"International Organisations and Disaster Relief", In Taylor, P [ed], Survey of International Institutions [NALGO; London - 1982]

Commissioned Papers:

“In Search of Coherence: A Framework for the EU’s SALW and ERW policies,” in Humanitarian Perspectives on Small Arms and Explosive Remnants of War, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, Geneva, December 2005

“The Governance of Global Security and Development: Convergence, Divergence and Coherence,” in Global Security and Development Cooperation: A policy study commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, November 2005

Institutional Implications for the Future, Chapter 5, in Humanitarian – Strategic Mapping and Research for Tomorrow: NGOs Plan for the Future, The Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University, July 2004

World Aid and Humanitarian Futures, an analytic review commissioned by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies as a follow-up to the first World Aid Conference launched in Geneva in September 1996, and published as a special supplement by Crosslines, Vol.5 #1, January 1997

Section on UN institutions for the UN Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children [The Machel Report], [United Nations, New York - November 1996]

Section on Emergency Response, Recovery and Aid for

Mackinlay, J. [ed], A Guide to Peace Support Peace Operations [T.J. Watson Institute for International Studies,

Brown University; Rhode Island - November 1996]

Module on Disaster Prevention and Preparedness,

Disaster Management Training Programme, University

of Wisconsin, 1992

"The Office for Emergency Operations in Ethiopia:

Enduring Lessons from a One-Off Shot", originally

presented to the British International Studies Association,

December 1986

"The International Management of Disasters: Clarity,

Communications and Cooperation", presented at the

Annenberg Conference on Disaster Management,

Washington, DC, October 1986

"Institutional Survival: The Plight and Problems of Inter-

governmental Organisations in Refugee Emergency

Relief", a study commissioned by the Independent

Commission on International Humanitarian Issues, Geneva,

January 1986

Born:   New York City, New York
Married: Laura Sandys

Children - Toby and Timothy

Education:

Trinity College, Connecticut - BA

London School of Economics and Political Science,

London - MSc

London School of Economics and Political Science,

London - PhD

Citizen: United Kingdom/United States