Paul Meyer

Paul Meyer is Fellow in International Security and Adjunct Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University and a Senior Fellow with The Simons Foundation. Prior to assuming his current appointments in 2011, Mr. Meyer had a 35-year career with the Canadian Foreign Service. Mr. Meyer had diplomatic assignments in Oslo, Moscow, Brussels (NATO), Washington, Tokyo and from 2003-2007 in Geneva where he served as Canada’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and to the Conference on Disarmament. At the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s HQ, Meyer held a variety of positions including Director General for International Security (1998-2001) and Director General for Security and Intelligence (2007-2010). Throughout his work, Meyer has sought to promote international security by means of creative diplomacy. He currently teaches a course “Diplomacy Demystified” at SFU’s School for International Studies and is engaged in research and writing on issues of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, outer space security and cyber security.

Amb. Paul Meyer has been a Senior Advisor to ICT4Peace since 2010 and has helped shaping ICT4Peace’s policy work on Peace and Security in Cyberspace including regarding UN GGE, UN OEWG, UN GA, UN Security Council and Regional Organisations. He published extensively for ICT4Peace. See an overview of Paul Meyer’s work here.