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Dr Volker Perthes\u00a0is an internationally renowned scholar, commentator, and former UN diplomat. He is\u00a0currently associated as\u00a0a\u00a0Senior Distinguished Fellow with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP).\u00a0At the United Nations, he served, among other things, as Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Sudan and Head of UNITAMS (Feb 2021-Oct 2023), and as Head of the Independent Strategic Review of UNAMI (Iraq) (Oct 2023-March 2024) with the rank of Under-Secretary-General.\u00a0Prior to this, from 2005 to 2020, Perthes was Executive Chairman and Director of SWP, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. In 2015-2016, he also served as UN Assistant Secretary-General and Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria. Perthes earned his doctoral degree in 1990 from the University of Duisburg. He was an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut from 1991 to 1993,\u00a0a\u00a0professor at Humboldt University Berlin from 2006 to 2019, and also taught international relations at other schools. Perthes is\u00a0a\u00a0renowned scholar, speaker and policy advisor, and author of numerous books and articles on the Middle East, Europe, and international affairs. His latest book \u201cThe Multipolarisation of the World.\u00a0A\u00a0Geopolitical Guide\u201d was published (in German) by Suhrkamp-Verlag, Berlin, in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29978,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVolker Perthes - Festival della Diplomazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr Volker Perthes\u00a0is an internationally renowned scholar, commentator, and former UN diplomat\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/volker-perthes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Volker Perthes - Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Volker Perthes\u00a0is an internationally renowned scholar, commentator, and former UN diplomat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/volker-perthes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Festival della Diplomazia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-09T07:49:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Immagine3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"904\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1205\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/volker-perthes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.festivaldelladiplomazia.eu\/en\/speakers\/volker-perthes\/\",\"name\":\"Volker Perthes - 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