Thomas G. Weiss (1946- ) is presidential professor of political science at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project and chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. He was editor of Global Governance, research director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, research professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, executive director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System and of the International Peace Academy, a member of the UNCTAD secretariat, and a consultant to several public and private agencies. He was educated at Harvard and Princeton Universities and has written or edited some thirty-five books and numerous scholarly articles about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development.

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