Thierry Senechal has 25 years of international experience in designing, implementing and evaluating strategies, programs and projects in the fields of conflict prevention, peacebuilding and negotiations. He started his career with the UN Security Council’s war reparation program following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Then, with the UN oversight branch, he evaluated the management efforts to implement the UN prevention, control and resolution of conflicts programs. He also participated in a variety of conflict assessments and fact-finding missions, including the National Recovery and Peacebuilding Plan in Central African Republic; the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations (refugee and settlement files); the UN Migration’s property restitution programs; the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s cases on the Annexation of Crimea by Russia. He helped facilitate several track-II diplomatic efforts on the peace process in the Middle East.
Thierry Senechal has also led complex investigations, regulatory inquiries, and law enforcement actions. As a regular tribunal-appointed expert in major international arbitration proceedings, he investigated complex international disputes for the ICC Court of Inte
Thierry Senechal has 25 years of international experience in designing, implementing and evaluating strategies, programs and projects in the fields of conflict prevention, peacebuilding and negotiations. He started his career with the UN Security Council’s war reparation program following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Then, with the UN oversight branch, he evaluated the management efforts to implement the UN prevention, control and resolution of conflicts programs. He also participated in a variety of conflict assessments and fact-finding missions, including the National Recovery and Peacebuilding Plan in Central African Republic; the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations (refugee and settlement files); the UN Migration’s property restitution programs; the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s cases on the Annexation of Crimea by Russia. He helped facilitate several track-II diplomatic efforts on the peace process in the Middle East.
Thierry Senechal has also led complex investigations, regulatory inquiries, and law enforcement actions. As a regular tribunal-appointed expert in major international arbitration proceedings, he investigated complex international disputes for the ICC Court of International Arbitration, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank) and the London Court of International Arbitration. From 2017 to 2021, he served on the ICCA-ASIL Task Force on Damage, a 15-person global panel of leading legal and economics experts to promote consistent evaluation standards in international arbitration. Thierry Senechal teaches conflict management and ethics in international relations in the master of international cooperation core curriculum of the Institute of Political Sciences (Paris and Saint Germain en Laye).
Education
- MBA, conducted and published research on space pollution dispute resolution at Harvard Program on Negotiation (PON) & Fellowship thesis under the supervision of Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2007)
- Master of Public Administration, concentration in International Security, Harvard University, School of Government (2002)
- Master of Science, concentration in Decision Sciences, London Business School (1995)
- BA, Columbia University, New York (1992)
Other training
- Harvard Law School Seminar, Dispute Systems Design (2006)
- Balliol College (Oxford) & Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Diploma Course, International Arbitration, Harvard Law School Seminar, Conducting Investigations, 2001 (with Prof. Philip Heymann) (2004)
International positions
- Independent international expert in governance, conflict and fragility (since 2007)
- Senior Officer (P-5), UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (Evaluation of UNDPA Prevention, control and resolution of conflicts program) (2005 - 2006)
- War Damage Expert (P-4), UN Security Council (Compensation Commission) (1997 - 2001)
Other fonctions
- Member, Task Force on Damages in International Arbitration, International Council for Commercial Arbitration and the American Society of International Law (2017 - 2020)
- Member, Pittsburgh Initiative (Track-II diplomacy initiative on Middle East peacebuilding and reparation for Palestinian refugees) (2016 - 2018)
- Member, Advisory Committee, Institute for Palestinian Studies/IDRC, Design of a geographical information system (GIS) for refugee property recorded by the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP) (2010 - 2016)
- Member, Chatham House’s Minister Lovell Process on Palestinian refugees losses (Leveraging Track II to support track I diplomacy goals) (2013 - 2014)
- Advisor (UK DFID/ASI appointment), Palestinian’s Negotiation Support Unit (Refugees, settlements and construction of the "wall") (2004 - 2012)
- Advisor, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Reparations Programs for Iraq (2006 - 2008)
- Member of the French delegation, meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (2008 - 2009)
Academic positions
- Visiting Professor, Seminar on Ethics in International Relations, Sciences Po Institute Saint-Germain-en-Laye (2019 - 2020)
- Adjunct Professor, Master of Public Affairs Program, Sciences Po Institute Paris (2005 - 2014)
- Co-founded the Social Impact Group, MIT Sloan School of Management (2006 - 2007)