13 Facts About Edward Luck

Edward C Luck was an American professor, author, and expert in international relations.

Edward Luck served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect between 2008 and 2012, appointed at the Assistant Secretary-General level.

Edward Luck served as Dean of the Joan B Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego between 2012 and 2013.

From 2015 to 2021 Luck was the Arnold A Saltzman Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Edward Luck served on the International Advisory Board of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.

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Edward Luck earned his MA, MPh, and PhD in political science from Columbia University, as well as an MIA from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs and a Certificate of the Harriman Institute.

Between December 1995 and July 1997, Edward Luck was a senior consultant to the Department of Administration and Management of the United Nations, and a staff director of the General Assembly's Open-Ended High-Level Working Group on the Strengthening of the United Nations System.

On 21 February 2008 Edward Luck was appointed Special Adviser at the Assistant Secretary-General level to the United Nations by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Edward Luck was responsible for developing the three-pillar approach to the practical implementation of the Responsibility to Protect and was widely considered as one of the leading international scholars of the emerging norm.

Edward Luck wrote and spoke widely about the "individual responsibility to protect" - the collective responsibility all human beings to take meaningful practical action to protect one another from genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Edward Luck has testified before Congress on arms control, defense, foreign policy, Russian and East Asian affairs, and United Nations reform and peacekeeping.

Edward Luck has published dozens of articles in Foreign Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Current History, Disarmament, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, USA Today, and Newsday.

Edward Luck died on 16 February 2021 at his home in Briarcliff Manor, New York.