{"name": "Ramesh Chandra Thakur", "personal_name": "Ramesh Chandra Thakur", "key": "/authors/OL658504A", "birth_date": "1948", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [15096686], "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Ramesh Thakur is an Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Senior Research Fellow, the Toda Peace Institute, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. His last post was Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the ANU. He was formerly Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations). Educated in India (BA Honours, University of Calcutta) and Canada (MA, PhD Queen\u2019s University), he has held full-time academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia and been a consultant to the Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian governments on arms control, disarmament and international security issues. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Governance (2013\u201318).\r\n*Source: the Crawford School of Public Policy.*\r\n\r\n\r\nContributions:\r\n- (with [Hyam Gold](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL673681A/Hyam_Gold)) *Antarctica as a Nuclear-Free Zone* in [Nuclear-Free Zones (1987)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8021100W/)\r\n- *The Treaty of Rarotonga: The South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone* in [Nuclear-Free Zones (1987)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8021100W/)"}, "links": [{"title": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Thakur", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Bio at Crawford School of Public Policy", "url": "https://crawford.anu.edu.au/people/ramesh-thakur", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-06-24T12:52:42.374389"}}