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Dr. Randolph Charles Kent (born October 1943) is Visiting Professor at King's College London's, African Leadership Centre,[1] Honorary Professor at University College London's Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.[2]
He is director of Humanitarian Futures (HF) – a platform providing tools to enhance humanitarian operational capacities, strategic planning, innovation and collaboration. HF is a web-based version of the Humanitarian Futures Programme (HFP) initiated in 2004 at King's College, London, as an action research programme in the School of Social Science and Public Policy.
Personal life and education
editBorn in New York City, New York, Dr. Kent received his Batchelor of Arts degree from Trinity College, Connecticut, and his Master of Arts degree and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr. Kent lives in London with his wife Laura Sandys whom he married on 3 September 2007 in Ramsgate, Kent.
He has two children, Toby and Timothy, from an earlier marriage.
Career
editPrior to his current academic and research posts, Dr. Kent completed assignment as
- UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, 1999-2002
- UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Kosovo, 1999
- Special Advisor to the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, New York, 1995-1996
- UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Rwanda, 1994-1995
- Chief of the IASC's Inter-Agency Support Unit, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Geneva, Switzerland, 1992-1994
- Deputy to the Coordinator, United Nations Special Emergency Programme for the Horn of Africa [SEPHA], New York, 1991-1992
- Chief of the UN Emergency Unit in Sudan, 1989-1991
- Chief of Emergency Prevention and Preparedness in Ethiopia, 1987-1989[2]
Before his career in the United Nations, he was a co-founder and director of Industrial Relations Services in the United Kingdom and UK Director of the University of Southern California's International Relations Program.
Additionally, Dr. Kent has been involved in projects focused on organisational and systems behaviour, leading to appointments on committees in Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Publishing Career
editNumerous articles, publications, academic papers and books including:
- Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities [Routledge, 2024][3]
- Anatomy of Disaster: The Relief Network in Action [Frances Pinter Publishers; London,1987]
Over 50 journal articles and book chapters dealing with organisational humanitarian strategies and operations, as well as humanitarian futures, including:
- Randolph Kent and Sam Carpenter, "The military, the private sector and traditional humanitarian actors: Interaction, interoperability and effectiveness", in Zeynep Sezgin and Dennis Dizkzeul, The New Humanitarians: Principles and Practice, Routledge, 2016
- Randolph Kent and Charlotte Crabtree, 'The Military and the Humanitarian Capacities Challenge: New Dimensions of Partnerships in a Fragile World, in Pauline Eadie and Wyn Rees et al, Military Transformation in the West and Asia: Security Policy in the Post-Cold War era, Routledge, 2016
- Randolph Kent, "Media Futures and Humanitarian Perspectives in an age of uncertainty and complexity", in Simon Cottle and Glenda Cooper, Humanitarian perspectives in an age of uncertainty and complexity, Peter Lang Publishing, 2015
- Randolph Kent and Sophie Evans, "The past is not the future: Transformation agendas and traditional humanitarian actors", in Roger MacGinty and Jenny Peterson, The Companion to Humanitarian Action, Routledge, 2015
- Randolph Kent, 'Positive and Negative Noise in Humanitarian Action: The OSINT Dimension' in Christopher Hobbs et al, Open Source Intelligence in the 21st Century: New Approaches and Opportunities, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
References
edit- ^ "Professor Randolph Kent". King's College London. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Dr Randolph Kent". www.rusi.org. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ^ "Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-09-29.