Arthur Boutellis is a policy and mediation expert. He is a senior advisor with the International Peace Institute (IPI) and teaches at graduate level at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po Paris. Before that, he served with the United Nations in various field missions. He is the author of Rivalités pour la paix - Géopolitique de l'ONU (Armand Colin, September 2025) and The UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) - Peacekeeping Caught in the Geopolitical Crossfire (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2024). Arthur Boutellis holds a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton University and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas.