Gareth Evans (politician)

The Honourable Gareth Evans AC KC FASSA FAIIA
Evans at Chatham House in 2011
Chancellor of Australian National University
In office 1 January 2010 – 1 January 2020
Preceded by	Kim Beazley
Succeeded by	Julie Bishop
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
In office 19 March 1996 – 19 October 1998
Leader	Kim Beazley
Preceded by	Peter Costello
Succeeded by	Simon Crean
Deputy Leader of the Labor Party
In office 19 March 1996 – 19 October 1998
Leader	Kim Beazley
Preceded by	Kim Beazley
Succeeded by	Simon Crean
Leader of the Government in the Senate
In office 24 March 1993 – 11 March 1996
Prime Minister	Paul Keating
Deputy	Robert Ray
Preceded by	John Button
Succeeded by	Robert Hill
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office 2 September 1988 – 11 March 1996
Prime Minister	Bob Hawke Paul Keating
Preceded by	Bill Hayden
Succeeded by	Alexander Downer
Minister for Transport and Communications
In office 24 July 1987 – 2 September 1988
Prime Minister	Bob Hawke
Preceded by	Peter Morris
Succeeded by	Ralph Willis
Minister for Resources and Energy
In office 13 December 1984 – 24 July 1987
Prime Minister	Bob Hawke
Preceded by	Peter Walsh
Succeeded by	John Kerin
Attorney-General of Australia
In office 11 March 1983 – 13 December 1984
Prime Minister	Bob Hawke
Preceded by	Peter Durack
Succeeded by	Lionel Bowen
Member of the Australian Parliament for Holt
In office 2 March 1996 – 30 September 1999
Preceded by	Michael Duffy
Succeeded by	Anthony Byrne
Senator for Victoria
In office 1 July 1978 – 2 March 1996
Succeeded by	Stephen Conroy
Personal details
Born	Gareth John Evans (1944-09-05) 5 September 1944 (age 79) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Political party	Labor
Spouse	Merran Evans
Children	Caitlin Evans Eamon Evans
Alma mater	University of Melbourne Magdalen College, Oxford
Profession	Academic, barrister
Website	gevans.org

Gareth John Evans AC, KC (born 5 September 1944), is an Australian politician, international policymaker, academic, and barrister. He represented the Labor Party in the Senate and House of Representatives from 1978 to 1999, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating governments from 1983 to 1996 as Attorney-General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and most prominently, from 1988 to 1996, as Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1993 to 1996, Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 1996 to 1998, and remains one of the two longest-serving federal Cabinet Ministers in Labor Party history.^[1]

After leaving politics, he was president and chief executive officer of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009. On returning to Australia he was appointed in 2009 honorary professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has served on a number of major international commissions and panels, including as co-chair of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000–01) and the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (2008–10). Evans has written extensively on international relations and legal, constitutional and political affairs, and has been internationally recognised for his contributions to the theory and practice of mass atrocity and conflict prevention, arms control and disarmament.

From 2010 to 2020, Evans was the Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU). He was appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the ANU in 2012. He currently is a member of the Board of Sponsors for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.