Person

Smillie, Ian

1944

founder of the Canadian NGO, Inter Pares in 1975; Executive Director of CUSO, 1979-1983; Tufts University (now Feinstein International Center) since 1997; adjunct professor at Tulane University, 1998-2001; Ian Smillie served on a UN Security Council Expert Panel examining the relationship between diamonds and weapons in West Africa, and he helped develop the 48-government ‘Kimberley Process,’ a global certification system to halt the traffic in conflict diamonds