Sam Daws is Executive Director of the United Nations Association of the UK. He has served as a senior policy advisor on UN issues for 16 years, including three years as First Officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He previously directed a Geneva-based international consultancy. He undertook doctoral studies on UN reform at New College, Oxford, and was a visiting fellow at Cambridge and Yale Universities. He has co-authored or edited six books on the UN.