Michael W. Doyle - Biography

Biography

Michael W. Doyle graduated from Harvard University, where he earned his A.B., M.A. and PhD in Political Science. He also studied at the US Air Force Academy, trained as a parachutist at Ft. Benning and completed his military service in the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

Doyle has taught at the University of Warwick, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and Yale Law School. At Princeton University, he directed the Center of International Studies and chaired the Editorial Board and the Committee of Editors of World Politics. He served as vice president and senior fellow of the International Peace Academy where he is now a member of its board of directors. He was also a member of the External Research Advisory Committee of the UNHCR and the Advisory Committee of the Lessons-Learned Unit of the Department of Peace-Keeping Operations (UN). He is a member of Council of Foreign Relations, New York. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2009, to the American Philosophical Society.

Doyle served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In the Secretary General’s Executive Office, he was responsible for strategic planning, including the Millennium Development Goals, outreach to the international corporate sector through the Global Compact, and relations with Washington. He is the former chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System.