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Richard Barrett |
Senior Advisor
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Since March 2004 Richard Barrett, OBE has been the Coordinator of a Team of experts appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General to advise the Security Council on the threat from Al-Qaida and the Taliban. He is based in New York.
His work with the Security Council involves extensive contact with all Member States, but especially those that are most involved in addressing the threat from Al-Qaida and the Taliban. This takes him to all parts of the world and has allowed him to establish close partnerships with the international intelligence and security community in particular.
His advice to the Security Council is based on these contacts and focuses on the effective implementation of the sanctions regime that the Council has introduced against named members and associates of Al-Qaida and the Taliban. His team is also required to offer suggestions for other measures that the Council could introduce to support the global counter-terrorist effort.
Richard Barrett is also a member of the Secretary-General’s Task Force established to promote the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy which was adopted by the General Assembly in 2006. He has a particular responsibility for issues to do with radicalisation and extremism that lead to terrorism, terrorist use of the Internet, and terrorist financing.
Before working for the United Nations, he had a full career with the British Government and served both in the United Kingdom and abroad. He was in charge of overseas counter- terrorist work before and after the attacks in the United States in 2001. |
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