Bruce Jones is director and senior fellow of CIC and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Managing Global Insecurity Initiative. Dr. Jones' research focuses on US policy on transnational threats and international cooperation; on the role of the United Nations in conflict management and international security; and on fragile states.
Prior to assuming the directorship of the Center, Dr. Jones was senior advisor in the Office of the Secretary-General during the UN reform effort leading up to the World Summit 2005, and in the same period was acting secretary of the Secretary-General's Policy Committee. In 2006 he was lead scholar for the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. From 2004 to 2005, he was deputy research director of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change. From 2000 to 2002 he was special assistant to the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, and held prior assignments in the UN Interim Mission in Kosovo and at UN Headquarters in New York.
